Background: Dirofilaria immitis is a cosmopolitan zoonotic, vector-borne parasite of carnivorous animals causing dirofilariasis in human beings. Common commercial serodiagnostic tests for canine dirofilariasis usually lead to different results in their sensitivity and specificity. The present study reports development of recombinant DgK (rDgK) antigen of D. immitis for accurate immunodiagnosis o...

Recent advances in the immunodiagnostics and pharmaceutical industries have demanded an improved understanding of the molecular interactions that underpin their technologies. For example, the design of more efficacious therapeutic agents requires a detailed knowledge of the proposed target biomolecule or biomolecular interaction. Techniques with the ability to probe single biomolecular interact...

There is little information on the humoral response of sheep experimentally infected with Echinococcus granulosus. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate this response and measure its evolution. Doses of 10, 100, 1000 and 10000 E. granulosus eggs were prepared and inoculated via intraruminal puncture. Blood samples were obtained before inoculation and every 48 h after inoculation, un...