Humoral and cellular immune responses in pigs immunized intranasally with crude rhoptry proteins of Toxoplasma gondii plus Quil-A |
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| Authors: | da Cunha Ivo Alexandre Leme Zulpo Dauton Luiz Bogado Alexey Leon Gomel de Barros Luiz Daniel Taroda Alessandra Igarashi Michelle Navarro Italmar Teodorico Garcia João Luis |
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| Institution: | Laboratório de Protozoologia, Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva, Universidade de Londrina - UEL, Postal Box 6001, 86050-970 Londrina, PR, Brazil. |
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| Abstract: | We evaluated the humoral and cellular immune responses in pigs immunized intranasally with crude rhoptry proteins of Toxoplasma gondii plus Quil-A. The experiment used 13 mixed-breed pigs divided into the following three groups: G1 (vaccinated-challenged, n=6), which received the rhoptry vaccine (200(g/dose); G2 (adjuvant-challenged, n=4), which received PBS plus Quil-A; and G3 (unvaccinated-challenged, n=3), which was the control group. The treatments were performed intranasally at days 0, 21, and 42. Three pigs from G1 produced IgG and IgM antibody levels above the cut-off in the ELISA on the challenge day. Partial protection was observed in G1 at the chronic phase of infection when compared with G3. The preventable fractions were 41.6% and 6.5%, in G1 and G2, respectively. The results of this study suggest that rhoptry proteins plus Quil-A stimulated humoral, local, and systemic immune responses, which were able to partially protect the brain from cyst formation. |
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