摘要：A serodiagnostic test has been developed for the detection of Plasmodium falciparum in infected blood. Using parasite antigens and infected red blood cells from in vitro cultures of P. falciparum and malaria antibody from high-titre Gambian sera, parasites were detected in a solid-phase radioimmunoassay (RIA) that measured antibody-binding inhibition. Lysed RBC were incubated with labelled IgG purified from immune sera and were then placed in antigen-coated microtubes and incubated. The degree of inhibition of antibody binding in the tubes correlated with the level of parasitaemia in the test RBC and, using dilutions of RBC from in vitro cultures of P. falciparum, the test detected infection at a level of 8 parasites/106 red blood cells. The test was applied to RBC from 100 healthy European blood donors and to samples of RBC from 500 Gambians from the up-country villages of Keneba and Manduar. More samples were positive by RIA than by microscopy and there was a highly significant degree of correlation between the RIA and microscopy results. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (804K), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References . 439 440 441 442 443 444
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