Toxoplasma gondii IgG ELISA
- Regulatory Status
- EU: CE
- Kit size
- 12 x 8
- Method
- ELISA
- Incubation time
- 1 x 1 h, 2 x 30 min
- Standard range
- 0 - 200 IU/mL, borderl. 30 - 35 IU/mL
- Specimen / Volumes
- 10 µL serum, plasma
- Substrate / isotope
- TMB 450 nm
Toxoplasma gondii is a small intracellular parasite, whose live cycle has a sexual and an asexual phase. Sexual development is restricted to the intestinal cells of (probably exclusively) cats; the oocysts formed are excreted and due to their resistant cell walls they may be infectious under advantageous circumstances for at least 1 year. Animals and man are intermediate hosts for the asexual proliferation of T. gondii: the ingested parasites will proliferate explosively within the host cells lysing them eventually. They disseminate throughout the body via circulation and lymphatic system and though may infect any cell type. In muscle and brain cells cysts are formed which are spheroidal and about 5-100 µm in diameter. Cysts are virtually immortal in the intermediate host. Toxoplasma gondii is the most common parasite in humans, but its abundance (7-80 %) is highly dependent on the geographic area, the socio-economic status and the nutritional customs. Infection only rarely causes toxoplasmosis and usually clinical symptoms are absent, but may produce severe problems in immunosuppressed persons and fetus. Because only a primary infection during pregnancy may be dangerous and even fatal for the unborn (the probability of congenital infection is about 50 %), the recent onset of an infection must be excluded. In pregnant women in over 98 % of cases, the absence of IgM excludes the possibility of recent infection. In newborns the very presence of anti-toxoplasma IgM is sufficient to confirm a congenital toxoplasmosis, since maternal IgM, unlike IgG, does not cross the placental barrier. But a significant number of infected infants do not develop detectable IgM levels and thus are false negative. In immunosuppressed patients toxoplasmosis causes severe complications mostly by reactivation of an earlier latent infection. Infection may be identified by
- PCR
- Indirect immunofluorescence (IIF)
- Serology: Detection of antibody production by ELISA
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