Detection of antigens in the urine of patients with acute Plasmodium vivax malaria

Exp Parasitol. 1993 Mar;76(2):115-20. doi: 10.1006/expr.1993.1013.

Abstract

Plasmodium antigens were detected by dot-blot assay in the urine of 50 patients infected with Plasmodium vivax. Antigens also were detected in 12/15 patients who no longer had detectable parasitemia, 3 weeks after chemotherapy. Antigenuria was negative 6 weeks after treatment. By Western blotting, four predominant protein antigens were identified in the urine of patients infected with P. vivax: 200, 180, 150, and 110 kDa. The dot-blot technique may prove to be a rapid and inexpensive method for diagnosing malaria in field studies and for clinical evaluation during chemotherapy.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Animals
  • Antigens, Protozoan / urine*
  • Blotting, Western
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunoblotting*
  • Malaria, Vivax / diagnosis*
  • Malaria, Vivax / urine
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Plasmodium vivax / immunology*

Substances

  • Antigens, Protozoan