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To improve the immunodiagnosis of human toxocaral disease, a sensitive and specific assay using the Western blotting procedure (WB) with excretory-secretory antigens fromToxocara canis larvae (TES) was developed and compared with the standard enzymelinked immunosorbent assay method (TES-ELISA) using the same antigens. We tested groups of sera from laboratory animals or patients presenting with toxocariasis or other helminthic diseases and a group of sera from people dwelling in an area endemic for toxocariasis who exhibited hypereosinophilia. Statistically, the WB assay correlated well with TES-ELISA, but the former was more specific for banding patterns corresponding to low-molecular-weight fractions, thus avoiding problems of cross-reactivity with sera infected with other helminthic diseases.
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Magnaval, J.F., Fabre, R., Maurières, P. et al. Application of the Western blotting procedure for the immunodiagnosis of human toxocariasis. Parasitol Res 77, 697–702 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00928685
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