ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2014
Regional variation in the correlation of antibody and T-cell responses to Trypanosoma cruzi.
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- Comparison of Four Chimeric Antigens and Commercial Serological Assays for the Diagnosis of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2025Article
- A multicentre comparative study of serological methods for diagnosing Chagas disease in Brazil.Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz · 2025Article
- Diversity of Chagas disease diagnostic antigens: Successes and limitations.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Review
- Western blot using Trypanosoma cruzi chimeric recombinant proteins for the serodiagnosis of chronic Chagas disease: A proof-of-concept study.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Assessing antibody decline after chemotherapy of early chronic Chagas disease patients.Parasites & vectors · 2021Article
- Stability Assessment of Four Chimeric Proteins for Human Chagas Disease Immunodiagnosis.Biosensors · 2021Article
- Use of a Latent Class Analysis in the Diagnosis of Chronic Chagas Disease in the Washington Metropolitan Area.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Article
- Glycosylation of Trypanosoma cruzi TcI antigen reveals recognition by chagasic sera.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Development of a New Lateral Flow Assay Based on IBMP-8.1 and IBMP-8.4 Chimeric Antigens to Diagnose Chagas Disease.BioMed research international · 2020Article
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- Immune reactivity to Trypanosoma cruzi chimeric proteins for Chagas disease diagnosis in immigrants living in a non-endemic setting.BMC infectious diseases · 2019Article
- Highly Accurate Chimeric Proteins for the Serological Diagnosis of Chronic Chagas Disease: A Latent Class Analysis.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2018Article
- Severity of Chagasic Cardiomyopathy Is Associated With Response to a Novel Rapid Diagnostic Test for Trypanosoma cruzi TcII/V/VI.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2018Article
- Treatment of Chagas Disease in the United States.Current treatment options in infectious diseases · 2018Review
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Abstract
Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Central and South America. Geographic variations in the sensitivity of serologic diagnostic assays to T. cruzi may reflect differences in T. cruzi exposure. We measured parasite-specific T-cell responses among seropositive individuals in two populations from South America with widely varying antibody titers against T. cruzi. Antibody titers among seropositive individuals were significantly lower in Arequipa, Peru compared with Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Similarly, the proportion of seropositive individuals with positive T-cell responses was lower in Peru than Bolivia, resulting in overall lower frequencies of interferon-γ (IFNγ)-secreting cells from Peruvian samples. However, the magnitude of the IFNγ response was similar among the IFNγ responders in both locations. These data indicate that immunological discrepancies based on geographic region are reflected in T-cell responses as well as antibody responses.
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