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A new IgG immunoblot kit for diagnosis of toxoplasmosis in pregnant women.
Imen Khammari, Fatma Saghrouni, Sami Lakhal, Aida Bouratbine, Moncef Ben Said, Jalel Boukadida
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Imen Khammari, Fatma Saghrouni, Sami Lakhal, Aida Bouratbine, Moncef Ben Said, et al.. A new IgG immunoblot kit for diagnosis of toxoplasmosis in pregnant women.. Korean Journal of Parasitology, Korean Society for Parasitology, 2014, 52 ((5)), pp.493-9. �10.3347/kjp.2014.52.5.493�.
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INTRODUCTION
Toxoplasmosis is the most frequent and widespread proto- zoal infection in humans. Although usually asymptomatic or benign in immunocompetent individuals, toxoplasmosis may cause severe lesions in the fetus when acquired by non-im- mune pregnant women [1,2]. As congenital transmission can only occur in previously seronegative women, the determina- tion and correct interpretation of the immune status are essen- tial for an appropriate prophylactic measures and treatment [3,4]. In immunocompetent subjects, the diagnosis of toxo- plasmosis is commonly established by the detection of specific anti-Toxoplasma IgG and IgM antibodies in the serum. Despite the availability of a great variety of serological tests and efforts for international standardization, discordance between tech- niques and equivocal results are not uncommon when the amounts of specific IgG are too low or close to the cut-off val- ue of the test (gray zone) [5,6]. In our laboratory, where en-
zyme immunoassay (EIA-IgG) and fluorescent antibody test (FAT-IgG) are used in routine, borderline results account for nearly 4% of tested sera [5]. The difficulties in interpretation of borderline results encountered when the quantitative en- zyme immunosystems are used and the discrepancies between tests are, for a great part, caused by the differences between the antigenic preparations, and the respective proportions of solu- ble or membrane antigens [7-9]. In these situations, the pre- cise determination of the immune status may be problematic, so that a confirmatory test is highly needed [5,6,10]. This is obviously of a major concern in pregnant women because of the risk of congenital toxoplasmosis. Moreover, as soon as the immune status is unequivocally determined, no further testing is needed for seropositive women who are considered to be im-munized. In contrast, a monthly serological monitoring is essential for non-immune patients.
The dye test of Sabin and Feldman has long been the gold standard method in the serodiagnosis of toxoplasmosis owing to its high specificity and sensitivity, but it is labor-in-tensive, tedious, not commercially available, and neither suitable for routine use, so that it is only used by a very few laboratories [2,6]. The LDBio-Toxo II IgG Western blot confirmation
®test (LDBIO Diagnostics, Lyon, France) (LDBIO II), which detects specific anti-T. gondii IgG, was recently developed to confirm
http://dx.doi.org/ 10.3347/kjp.2014.52.5.493 ORIGINAL ARTICLE
• Received 23 April 2014, revised 12 June 2014, accepted 15 June 2014.
* Corresponding author (imenkhammari@yahoo.fr)
© 2014, Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine
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A New IgG Immunoblot Kit for Diagnosis of Toxoplasmosis in Pregnant Women
Imen Khammari
1,* , Fatma Saghrouni
1, Sami Lakhal
2, Aida Bouratbine
2, Moncef Ben Said
1, Jalel Boukadida
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