Publication Date:
1991-03-29
Description:
Onchocerciasis (river blindness) is a serious health problem and a severe obstacle to social and economic development, especially in Africa. A complementary DNA fragment coding for an Onchocerca volvulus antigen (OV-16) was cloned and expressed in the plasmid vector pCG808fx. Immune responses to this O. volvulus-specific recombinant antigen were detectable in patients with documented onchocerciasis; the antibody response was also detectable at 3 months and at more than 1 year before infection could otherwise be detected in humans and in chimpanzees experimentally infected with O. volvulus third-stage larvae.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lobos, E -- Weiss, N -- Karam, M -- Taylor, H R -- Ottesen, E A -- Nutman, T B -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1991 Mar 29;251(5001):1603-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2011741" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Antibodies, Helminth
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Antibody Specificity
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Antigens, Helminth/*analysis/genetics
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Child
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Cloning, Molecular
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Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
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Humans
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Mali
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Onchocerca/genetics/*immunology
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Onchocerciasis/*diagnosis/immunology/prevention & control
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Pan troglodytes
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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