Production of monoclonal antibodies anti-Taenia crassiceps cysticerci with cross-reactivity with Taenia solium antigens

We describe the production of the potential monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) using BALB/c mice immunized with vesicular fluid (VF)-Tcra (T. crassiceps) antigen. Immune sera presented anti-VF-Tcra (<20kD) IgG and IgM antibodies with cross-reactivity with T. solium (Tso) antigen (8-12, 14, and 18 kD). After cell fusion, we selected 33 anti-Tcra and anti-Tso reactive IgM-clones and 53 anti-Tcra specific IgG-clones, 5 of them also recognizing Tso antigens. Two clones identified the 8-14 and 18kD peptides of VF-Tcra.

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Main Authors: ESPÍNDOLA,Noeli M., DE GASPARI,Elizabeth N., NAKAMURA,Paulo M., VAZ,Adelaide J.
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo 2000
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652000000300013
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