In order to evaluate the potential use of TS14 antigen in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for immunodiagnosis of neurocysticercosis (NC), its open reading frame (ORF) was amplified by RT-PCR from mRNA isolated from Taenia solium cysticerci. The ORF was subcloned into the expression vector pET-28a, and was used to transform Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) cells to produce TS14 antigen. The His-tagged expressed protein was purified on a nickel affinity column. Using the HISTS14 as antigen, ELISA was positive for 100% of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and 97% of serum samples from NC patients. No positive results were observed with sera and CSF samples from control groups. Cross-reactivity with sera from patients with schistosomiasis and Chagas' disease was not observed. Serum samples from patients with taeniasis were evaluated and 2 of 13 cases showed reactivity in this assay. Our data indicate the usefulness of HISTS14 in ELISA for an accurate and rapid assay for diagnosis of NC and seroepidemiological studies.
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Acta Trop
August 2022
Department of Parasitology, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi 563000, China. Electronic address:
There is a lack of vaccine against human cysticercosis, thus making a huge population at the risk of infection. In this study, we chose a novel potential antigen molecule Taenia solium 14-3-3.3 (Ts14-3-3.
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August 2019
Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 3000, Ciudad de Mexico 04510, Mexico.
is a helminth parasite that causes 2 diseases in humans: cysticercosis and taeniasis. The establishment of metacestodes in the central nervous system causes neurocysticercosis, while development of the adult tapeworm in the small intestine causes taeniasis. Serological diagnosis of neurocysticercosis is performed by Western blot with an enriched fraction of glycoproteins that has been extensively used for clinical diagnosis and epidemiological surveys.
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November 2016
Department of Medical Microbiology & Parasitology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. Electronic address:
Trichinellosis, a widespread zoonosis, is considered to be an emerging or re-emerging infectious parasitic disease. The development of vaccines to prevent Trichinella infection in domestic animals and humans is important for disease control. In a previous study, we identified Ts14-3-3 as an immunodominant protein from Trichinella spiralis (T.
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January 2016
Neuroregeneration Group, Biotechnology Department, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Ctra. Pozuelo-Majadahonda, Km. 1.800, Pozuelo de Alarcón, 28223 Madrid, Spain. Electronic address:
Olfactory ensheathing glia (OEG) cells are known to foster axonal regeneration of central nervous system (CNS) neurons. Several lines of reversibly immortalized human OEG (ihOEG) have been previously established that enabled to develop models for their validation in vitro and in vivo. In this work, a constitutively GFP-expressing ihOEG cell line was obtained, and named Ts14-GFP.
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