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KMID : 0425120080460010045
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Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
2008 Volume.46 No. 1 p.45 ~ p.48
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Evaluation of the Korean Isolate-1 Tachyzoite Antigen for Serodiagnosis of Toxoplasmosis
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Shin Eun-Hee
Chai Jong-Yil
Kim Hyo-Jin
Ahn Myoung-Hee
Kim Dong-Hee
Lee Jo-Woon-Yi
Lin Aifen
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Abstract
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To evaluate the usefulness of the Korean Isolate-1 (KI-1) antigen for serodiagnosis of toxoplasmosis, antigen profiles of KI-1 tachyzoites were analyzed in comparison with RH tachyzoites by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting. ELISA was performed on latex agglutination (LA)-positive and negative serum samples using KI-1 and RH antigens. Immunoblotting of the KI-1 antigen showed multiple antigen bands with molecular sizes of 22-105 kDa. Among them, 1 and 6 common bands were noted against a KI-1-infected and a RH-infected human serum, respectively, which represented differences in antigenic profiles between KI-1 and RH tachyzoites. However, all 9 LA-positive human sera were found positive by ELISA, and all 12 LA-negative sera were negative by ELISA; the correlation between the ELISA titers and LA titers was high (r = 0.749). Our results suggest that tachyzoites of KI-1 may be useful for serodiagnosis of human toxoplasmosis.
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KEYWORD
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Toxoplasma gondii, Toxoplasmosis, Korean isolate-1 (KI-1), RH strain, Serodiagnosis, Antigen
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