%0 Journal Article
%T Estudo comparativo de anticorpos IgG e IgE antileishmania como marcadores de infec£¿£¿o e doen£¿a em indiv¨ªduos de ¨¢rea end¨ºmica de leishmaniose visceral, em S£¿o Luis, MA
%A Nascimento
%A Maria do Desterro Soares Brand£¿o
%A Bezerra
%A Geusa Felipa de Barros
%A Bandeira Neto
%A Abderval Pinto
%A Silva
%A Leopoldo Muniz da
%A Bezerra
%A Jos¨¦ de Mac¨ºdo
%A Viana
%A Gra£¿a Maria de Castro
%J Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
%D 2006
%I Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT
%R 10.1590/S0037-86822006000100007
%X comparative study regarding igg and ige anti-leishmania as markers of infection and illness among residents of a visceral leishmaniasis visceral leishmaniasis endemic area, s£¿o luis, ma in the period from may 1999 to may 2000. all the 1,016 individuals younger than 16 years old were tested for the presence of igg by elisa. a total of 174 (17,1%) children revealed a positive igg test and 4 children showed symptoms of classical visceral leishmaniasis during the time of the survey: 85 ige anti-leishmania elisa tests with positivity of 43,5% were realized. in this sample, all 7 children with past-visceral leishmaniasis in the sample were igg positive and 4 (57,1%) were ige positive, even after a 7 year post treatment period. three children with current visceral leishmaniasis were evaluated, and all of them were positive for both tests. the detection of antileishman ige antibodies presented as a good marker for infection by leishmania chagasi in endemic areas but not as a disease marker.
%K visceral leishmaniasis
%K immunoglobulins
%K infection markers.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0037-86822006000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en