The use of peptides for immunodiagnosis of human Chagas disease
Amino Acids(2024)
摘要
Chagas disease, caused by the protozoa Trypanosoma cruzi, continues to be a serious public health problem in Latin America, worsened by the limitations in its detection. Given the importance of developing new diagnostic methods for this disease, the present review aimed to verify the number of publications dedicated to research on peptides that demonstrate their usefulness in serodiagnosis. To this end, a bibliographic survey was conducted on the PubMed platform using the keyword “peptide” or “epitope” combined with “Chagas disease” or “Trypanosoma cruzi”; “diagno*” or “serodiagnosis” or “immunodiagnosis”, without period restriction. An increasing number of publications on studies employing peptides in ELISA and rapid tests assays was verified, which confirms the expansion of research in this field. It is possible to observe that many of the peptides tested so far originate from proteins widely used in the diagnosis of Chagas, and many of them are part of commercial tests developed. In this sense, as expected, promising results were obtained for several peptides when tested in ELISA, as many of them exhibited sensitivity and specificity values above 90
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Chagas disease,Trypanosoma cruzi,Serodiagnosis,Imunodiagnosis,peptide
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