PubMed · 4896868
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R A Vieira, P C Rombert. [Study on ancylostomae].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4896868/
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Human eosinophilic enteritis (EE) may result from hypersensitivity to the excretory/secretory (ES) antigens of adult Ancylostoma caninum. The origin of several antigens were identified by probing adult A. caninum with mouse monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs), sera from mice vaccinated with ES antigens and sera from human EE patients. Six MoAbs (AC/ES 1-6) were produced against ES antigens, two being IgG3 and four IgM. Western blots demonstrated four different antigen specificities: MoAb AC/ES 1 bound strongly to an ES product at about 30 kDa; AC/ES 2 recognized a broad band ranging from 50-200 kDa; AC/ES 3, AC/ES 5 and AC/ES 6 reacted at about 68 kDa, and AC/ES 4 at about 97 kDa. Sections of formalin-fixed, paraffin embedded adult A. caninum were then incubated with these MoAbs and immunostained by the peroxidase-anti-peroxidase (PAP) technique. The target epitope of MoAb AC/ES 1 was found mainly in the oesophageal, amphidial and excretory glands; AC/ES 2 reacted weakly with many structures in the sections; AC/ES 3, AC/ES 5 and AC/ES 6 were specific for excretory glands only, and AC/ES 4 bound to amphidial glands. Sera from immunized mice reacted with all three (especially the excretory) glands and the cuticle. In an indirect assay, worm sections probes with three human EE patient sera demonstrated maximal staining in the amphidial glands. Our findings confirm that ES products of A. caninum include immunogenic glandular secretions which may be involved in the pathogenesis of human EE.
Fecal examination on 112 and a subset of 58 wild lions (Panthera leo) in the Serengeti National Park and the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, East Africa revealed eggs, larvae, and protozoan cysts of 15 parasite taxa. The most prevalent were Spirometra sp. (63% prevalence), Taeniidae (58%), Ancylostoma sp. (56%), and a coccidian (53%). Three parasites were considered spurious. Of the hosts, 97.3% were infected with at least 1 species of parasite. Individual parasite taxa were aggregated among hosts.
The aim of this investigation was to examine whether reactivated somatic Ancylostoma caninum larvae can be eliminated by the administration of doramectin to pregnant bitches. Four pregnant bitches experimentally infected with 20,000 third-stage larvae of A. caninum were treated subcutaneously with 1 mg doramectin per kg body weight on day 55 of the pregnancy (5-8 days before parturition). Another four experimentally infected pregnant bitches served as controls. The single doramectin treatment completely prevented galactogenic infections in the puppies. Neither intestinal stages nor somatic larvae could be found. The administration of doramectin caused no local or generalized side-effects in the bitches. All 16 puppies of the treated bitches were born healthy and remained so during the whole trial period. Beginning during the third week after birth, all 20 puppies of the untreated bitches developed a severe microcytic, hypochromic anaemia. They had to be killed between 17 and 35 days after birth. Post mortem, they revealed a total of 8649 intestinal stages of A. caninum.