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Springerplus ; 1(1): 77, 2012 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23419946

RESUMO

Bovine tuberculosis is an important infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium bovis, which is responsible for considerable economic losses. This disease constitutes a serious public health problem. Control programs in most countries, including Brazil, are based on the identification and slaughter of infected animals, as defined by the skin tuberculin test, which has its constraints. In the present study, the recombinant proteins CFP-10, ESAT-6, Mb0143, MPB83, PE5, PE13, TB10.4, TB15.3 and a chimera of ESAT-6/MPB70/MPB83 (fusion protein) were tested as ELISA antigens for the diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis. The proteins were produced in Escherichia coli, purified and tested in ELISAs with sera from 126 cattle having tested negative in the comparative intradermal tuberculin test (CITT) and 107 sera from cattle having tested positive in the CITT. Also, 236 sera from two BTB-free beef cattle herds were tested. Among the proteins tested, only the ESAT-6/MPB70/MPB83 chimera demonstrated satisfactory agreement with the CITT (kappa index: 0.688), reflecting in 83.2% sensitivity and 86.5% specificity. The ELISA absorbances of the cattle sera from BTB-free herds showed similar levels to those of CITT positive cattle, probably as the result of successive skin tuberculinizations to define the BTB-free status of the herds. However, the ELISA with the ESAT-6/MPB70/MPB83 chimera was useful to discriminate BTB positive and negative cattle in herds prior to the tuberculin skin test.

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Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz ; 104(7): 998-1002, Nov. 2009. ilus
Artigo em Inglês | LILACS | ID: lil-534165

RESUMO

Babesia bovis is a tick-borne pathogen that remains an important constraint for the development of cattle industries in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Effective control can be achieved by vaccination with live attenuated phenotypes of the parasite. However, these phenotypes have a number of drawbacks, which justifies the search for new, more efficient immunogens based mainly on recombinant protein technology. In the present paper, ribosomal phosphoprotein P0 from a Brazilian isolate of B. bovis was produced and evaluated with regard to conservation and antigenicity. The protein sequence displayed high conservation between different Brazilian isolates of B. bovis and several Apicomplexa parasites such as Theileria, Neospora and Toxoplasma. IgG from cattle experimentally and naturally infected with B. bovisas well as IgG1 and IgG2 from naturally infected cattle reacted with the recombinant protein. IgG from cattle experimentally infected with Babesia bigemina cross-reacted with B. bovis recombinant P0. These characteristics suggest that P0 is a potential antigen for recombinant vaccine preparations against bovine babesiosis.


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Animais , Bovinos , Antígenos de Protozoários/sangue , Babesia bovis/imunologia , Proteínas de Protozoários , Proteínas Ribossômicas , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Anticorpos Antiprotozoários/sangue , Brasil , Babesia bovis/isolamento & purificação , Babesiose/imunologia , Babesiose/parasitologia , Babesiose/veterinária , Doenças dos Bovinos/imunologia , Doenças dos Bovinos/parasitologia , Imunoglobulina G/imunologia , Proteínas de Protozoários/genética , Proteínas de Protozoários/imunologia , Proteínas Recombinantes/genética , Proteínas Recombinantes/imunologia , Proteínas Ribossômicas/genética , Proteínas Ribossômicas/imunologia
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