Analysis of oocyst wall and sporozoite antigens from three Cryptosporidium species.

AUTOR(ES)

Nina, J M

RESUMO

A comparison was made of the antigenic composition of oocyst walls and sporozoites from Cryptosporidium baileyi from turkeys, C. muris from rodents, and C. parvum from ruminants, employing immunoblotting and immunofluorescence. In immunoblotting, oocyst antigens were subjected to sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Western blotting (immunoblotting) and detected with rabbit polyclonal anti-C. muris or -C. parvum antibodies or murine monoclonal antibodies developed against C. parvum. Immunofluorescence was used to investigate the reactivity of these monoclonal antibodies with air-dried excystation mixtures of sporozoites and oocysts of the different species. The results from both types of experiment indicated that the three Cryptosporidium species could be differentiated immunologically. In comparison, few antigenic differences were found between a number of isolates of C. parvum in immunoblotting. There was also evidence to suggest that C. parvum and C. baileyi were more closely related antigenically to one another than to C. muris.

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