Trypanosomiasis cruzi: a follow-up study of tissue reacting immunoglobulins in infected purebred pinscher dogs

• Main Authors: Eduardo Alves Bambirra, Washington Luis Tafuri, Luigi Bogliolo, Cléa Chiari, Fausto Edmundo Lima Pereira
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 1984-12-01
• Series: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Subjects: Doença de Chagas experimental; Cães; Auto-anticorpos; Imunoglobulinas em tecidos
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86821984000400007&lng=en&tlng=en

Antibodies against striated muscle (cardiac and skeletal) were studied in serum samples from 36 purebred prepubertal Pinscher dogs (15 Controls without infection and 21 infected with Trypanosoma cruzi from 7 to 400 days after infection with 1000 trypomastigotes/gram body weight of the Colombiana strain by the intraperitoneal route). Although three different immunohistological pattems of tissue-reacting immunoglobulins were found their presence was not correlated with any peculiar characteristics or with the severity of the disease in each particular dog.