%0 Journal Article %T El inmunoensayo enzim¨¢tico (ELISA) en el diagn¨®stico serol¨®gico de Plasmodium vivax %A Perez %A Hilda A. %A De La Rosa %A Mercedes %J Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de S£¿o Paulo %D 1990 %I Instituto de Medicina Tropical %R 10.1590/S0036-46651990000300008 %X elisa was evaluated for the serodiagnosis of plasmodium vivax using homologous antigen. this was a crude fraction obtained after detergent (np-40) lysis of human parasitized red blood cells. antibodies of the classes igm, igg, iga were determined in a pool of eleven sera from patients with p. vivax malaria. the protein a was introduced as secondary probe to screen p. vivax antibodies in 30 sera of patients harbouring a first episode of p. vivax malaria. there was a correlation of 93% with the parasitological diagnosis and the test resulted specific and reproducible. %K malaria %K p. vivax %K anticuerpos %K elisa. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0036-46651990000300008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en