Recent advances in basic and applied science for the control of taeniasis/cysticercosis in Asia.
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2002-03-16
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Detection of seven specific bands by immunoblot (IB) using glycoproteins (GPs) purified by lentil-lectin affinity chromatography has been the gold-standard for neurocysticercosis (NCC) serodiagnosis since 1989. However, due to the presence of contaminants, it was impossible to apply the GPs to ELISA. Our group at Asahikawa Medical College (AMC) succeeded in purifying the GPs by preparative isoelectric focusing; these higher quality GPs were suitable for ELISA. Based on the results of both IB and ELISA testing, developed at AMC for a field survey in Irian Jaya, it became evident that that area had pandemic NCC. We found many NCC patients, pigs full of cysts, and one dog infected with two cysts: these findings were based on serology. Recently, we conducted another survey to detect of the worm carriers of T. solium. Three of the 38 local people were positive by copro-antigen specific to Taenia species; these three patients expelled segments of Taenia spp and these were confirmed as those of T. solium by mitochondrial DNA analysis. When viable eggs of any taeniid species could be obtained, they can be developed into metacestodes in NOD-scid mice; it then becomes possible to analyze morphological dynamics, metacestode antigenicity, the efficacy of new metacestocidal drugs, and mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA analysis of the specimens obtained in Irian Jaya was compared with that of other isolates worldwide. T. solium is now divided into two genotypes: the Asian type, and the Africa-American type. Some aspects of the pathological differences between the Asian and Africa-American types and the antigenic components of these two types are discussed.
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The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health.
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Ito A, Wandra T, Subahar R, Hamid A, Yamasaki H, Sako Y, Mamuti W, Okamoto M, Nakaya K, Nakao M, Ishikawa Y, Suroso T, Craig PS, Margono SS. Recent advances in basic and applied science for the control of taeniasis/cysticercosis in Asia. The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. 2002 ; 33 Suppl 3(): 79-82