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dc.contributor.authorAparicio Burgos, José Estebanes
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-21T20:14:50Z
dc.date.available2014-11-21T20:14:50Z
dc.date.issued2011es
dc.identifier.citationJosé E. Aparicio-Burgos, Laucel Ochoa-García, José A. Zepeda-Escobar, Shivali Gupta, Monisha Dhiman, José Simón Martínez, Roberto Montes de Oca-Jiménez, Margarita Val Arreola, Alberto Barbabosa-Pliego, Juan C. Vázquez-Chagoyán, Nisha Jain Garg (2011). Testing the efficacy of a multi-component DNA-prime/DNA-boost vaccine against Trypanosoma cruzi infection in dogs. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol.5, Pag.1-10.es
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.uaeh.edu.mx/bitstream/handle/123456789/15680
dc.description.abstractTrypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of Chagas Disease, is a major vector borne health problem in Latin America and an emerging infectious disease in the United States. We tested the efficacy of a multi-component DNA-prime/DNA-boost vaccine (TcVac1) against experimental T. cruzi infection in a canine model. Dogs were immunized with antigen-encoding plasmids and cytokine adjuvants, and two weeks after the last immunization, challenged with T. cruzi trypomastigotes. We measured antibody responses by ELISA and haemagglutination assay, parasitemia and infectivity to triatomines by xenodiagnosis, and performed electrocardiography and histology to assess myocardial damage and tissue pathology. Vaccination with TcVac1 elicited parasite-and antigen-specific IgM and IgG (IgG2/IgG1) responses. Upon challenge infection, TcVac1-vaccinated dogs, as compared to non-vaccinated controls dogs, responded to T. cruzi with a rapid expansion of antibody response, moderately enhanced CD8+ T cell proliferation and IFN-? production, and suppression of phagocytes? activity evidenced by decreased myeloperoxidase and nitrite levels. Subsequently, vaccinated dogs controlled the acute parasitemia by day 37 pi (44 dpi in non-vaccinated dogs), and exhibited a moderate decline in infectivity to triatomines. TcVac1-immunized dogs did not control the myocardial parasite burden and electrocardiographic and histopatholgic cardiac alterations that are the hallmarks of acute Chagas disease. During the chronic stage, TcVac1- vaccinated dogs exhibited a moderate decline in cardiac alterations determined by EKG and anatomo-/histo-pathological analysis while chronically-infected/non-vaccinated dogs continued to exhibit severe EKG alterations. Overall, these results demonstrated that TcVac1 provided a partial resistance to T. cruzi infection and Chagas disease, and provide an impetus to improve the vaccination strategy against Chagas disease. Keywords: vaccine, Trypanosoma cruzi, dogs, DNA plasmides
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dc.subjectDesarrollo de vacunas contra Trypanosoma cruzi en modelos animaleses
dc.titleTesting the efficacy of a multi-component DNA-prime/DNA-boost vaccine against Trypanosoma cruzi infection in dogs.es
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