Background:Brazil has seen a great decline in malaria and the country is moving towards ***,for eventual elimination,the control program needs efficient tools in order to monitor malaria exposure and *** this study,we...
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Background:Brazil has seen a great decline in malaria and the country is moving towards ***,for eventual elimination,the control program needs efficient tools in order to monitor malaria exposure and *** this study,we aimed to evaluate whether seroprevalence to the circumsporozoite protein(CSP)is a good tool for monitoring the exposure to and/or evaluating the burden and distribution of Plasmodium species in the Brazilian ***:Cross-sectional surveys were conducted in a rural area of Porto Velho,Rondônia *** infection was detected by microscopy and polymerase chain *** to the sporozoite CSP repeats of Plasmodium vivax,***,and ***(PvCS,PfCS,and PmCS)were detected using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay *** leukocyte antigen(hla)-DRB1 and DQB1 genes were typed using Luminex®xMAP®***:The prevalence of immunoglobulin G against *** CSP peptide(62%)was higher than ***(49%)and ***(46%)CSP *** of the studied individuals had antibodies to at least one of the three peptides(72%),34%had antibodies to all three peptides and 28%were *** the majority of the population was not infected at the time of the survey,74.3%of parasite-negative individuals had antibodies to at least one of the ***,among individuals carrying the haplotypes DRB1*04~DQB1*03,there was a significantly higher frequency of PfCS responders,and DRB1*16~DQB1*03 haplotype for PvCS and PfCS *** contrast,hla-DRB1*01 and hla-DQB1*05 allelic groups were associated with a lack of antibodies to *** and *** CSP repeats,and the haplotype DRB1*01~DQB1*05 was also associated with non-responders,including non-responders to ***:Our results show that in low transmission settings,naturally acquired antibody responses against the CSP repeats of ***,***,and *** in a single cross-sectional study may n
BRIEF REPORT The activity of natural killer (NK) cells is partially regulated by killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) interacting with human leukocyte antigen C (hla-C) ligands.1 The ligands of sever...
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BRIEF REPORT The activity of natural killer (NK) cells is partially regulated by killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) interacting with human leukocyte antigen C (hla-C) ligands.1 The ligands of several inhibitory (2DL and 3DL) and activating (2DS and 3DS) KIR have been described.
AIM: To describe human leukocyte antigen(hla) alleles in individuals with Down syndrome and alopecia areata. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted, which evaluated 109 individuals. Ten with down syndrome(DS) ...
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AIM: To describe human leukocyte antigen(hla) alleles in individuals with Down syndrome and alopecia areata. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted, which evaluated 109 individuals. Ten with down syndrome(DS) and alopecia areata(AA), ten with DS without AA and ten with AA without DS, and their fami-lies. The individuals were matched by gender and age. The following data were computed: gender, age, ethnic group, karyotype, clinical presentation and family history of alopecia areata. Descriptive analysis: measures of central tendency and frequency distribution. Inferential analysis: Fisher's exact test to compare categorical data between the three groups and Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA test for numerical ***: Seventy per cent of evaluated individuals in the DS and AA group were male; presented mean age of 18.6(SD ± 7.2) years and 70% were Caucasian. We observed involvement of the scalp, with a single lesion in 10% and multiple in 90% of subjects. It was observed that there is no significant difference in the frequency distributions of the alleles hla loci A, B, C, DRB1 and DQB1 of subjects studied. However, according to Fisher's exact test, there is a trend(P = 0.089) of DS group to present higher proportions of hla-A 36 and hla-B 15 than the AA group and AA and DS ***: There was a tendency for the DS group, to present proportion of hla-A 36 and hla-B 15 higher than the AA group and group of individuals with AA and DS. However, there was no significant difference in the frequency distribution of the alleles.
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