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Characterization of Trypanosoma congolense serodemes in stocks isolated from Chipata District, Zambia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

I. A. Frame ,
C. A. Ross  and
A. G. Luckins
I. A. Frame
Affiliation:
Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG
C. A. Ross
Affiliation:
Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG
A. G. Luckins
Affiliation:
Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG
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Six stocks of Trypanosoma congolense were cloned from 17 stocks isolated from Eastern Zambia and used to initiate insect-form in vitro cultures producing metacyclic trypanosomes. Serological assays were then developed using these in vitro-derived metacyclics as a reference collection of antigens. Monoclonal antibodies recognized 8 metacyclic variable antigen types (M-VATs) of one stock, T. congolense TREU 1885, representing 70–80% of that stock's M-VAT repertoire, and in an indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT) there were no cross-reactions between them and the metacyclic trypanosomes of the other 5 stocks. Cross-protection assays between the 6 stocks in mice showed that the stocks cultured in vitro were serologically distinct. In order to facilitate serological typing for serodeme characterization, an IFAT was developed using formalin-fixed metacyclic trypanosomes to identify VAT specific immune responses using 21 day post-infection antisera. The cultured stocks reacted only with their homologous antisera thus confirming the results obtained in the cross-protection assays. No cross-reactions were observed with the 6 cloned stocks and antisera against the 11 stocks of T. congolense isolated in the same area at the same time suggesting that these stocks were different from the reference collection of cultured metacyclics. Hence, at least 7 serodemes of T. congolense have been identified from the 17 stocks isolated.

Keywords

Trypanosoma congolense stocksmetacyclicsserodeme analysisvariable antigen types
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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 101 , Issue 2 , October 1990 , pp. 235 - 241
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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