Characterization of guinea pig antibody responses to salivary proteins of Triatoma infestans for the development of a triatomine exposure marker.

• Main Authors: Veronika Dorňáková (Author), Renzo Salazar-Sanchez (Author), Katty Borrini-Mayori (Author), Oscar Carrion-Navarro (Author), Michael Z Levy (Author), Günter A Schaub (Author), Alexandra Schwarz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Salivary proteins of Triatoma infestans elicit humoral immune responses in their vertebrate hosts. These immune responses indicate exposure to triatomines and thus can be a useful epidemiological tool to estimate triatomine infestation. In the present study, we analyzed antibody responses of guinea...