Trypanosoma cruzi Virulence Factors for the Diagnosis of Chagas’ Disease

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Abstract
trans-Sialidase and cruzipain are important virulence factors from Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas disease, that have highly antigenic domains in their structure and were reported as potential tools for diagnosis of the illness. The aim of the present study is to assess the possibility of using cruzipain and the catalytic domain of trans-sialidase in a Surface Plasmon Resonance-based immunosensor for the diagnosis of chronic Chagas disease. Immunoassays carried out with canine sera verified that cruzipain allows the detection of anti-Trypanosoma cruzi antibodies whereas recombinant trans-sialidase did not yield specific detections, due to the high dilutions of serum used in the immunoassays that hinder the possibility to sense the specific low titer antibodies. The developed cruzipain-based biosensor, whose price per assay is comparable to a commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), was successfully applied for the rapid quantification of specific antibodies against Trypanosoma cruzi in fresh human sera showing an excellent agreement with ELISA.
Funding Information
  • Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient?ficas y T?cnicas (PIP 0671)
  • Agencia Nacional de Promoci?n Cient?fica y Tecnol?gica (PICT 2016-0679)
  • Funda??o de Amparo ? Pesquisa do Estado de S?o Paulo (2017/26058-6)
  • Fundaci?n Bunge y Born
  • Instituto Nacional de Ci?ncia e Tecnologia de Bioanal?tica

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