ES2534428T3 - Perfiles de anticuerpos específicos de un estado tuberculoso - Google Patents
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Abstract
Un ensayo para los anticuerpos de la tuberculosis en una muestra de suero humano que es capaz de distinguir la tuberculosis activa de la tuberculosis inactiva, que comprende: (a) Exposición de los anticuerpos en la muestra a por lo menos tres diferentes antígenos de proteína de M. tuberculosis separadamente inmovilizados en diferentes lugares, en donde los tres diferentes antígenos M. tuberculosis incluyen: (i) por lo menos un antígeno de un primer tipo cuyo reconocimiento serológico es consistente con la tuberculosis inactiva pero no la tuberculosis activa, (ii) por lo menos un antígeno de un segundo tipo cuyo reconocimiento serológico es consistente con la tuberculosis activa pero no la tuberculosis inactiva y (iii) por lo menos uno antígeno adicional seleccionado del grupo formado por el primero y el segundo tipo, (b) Detección de la presencia o ausencia de anticuerpos séricos a dichos antígenos y (c) La determinación de una firma de antígenos bacterianos de la muestra como una combinación de la presencia y la ausencia de respuestas de anticuerpos ambiguas en donde la firma es una indicación de que la muestra es más que probable que contenga anticuerpos de la TB inactiva o la TB activa.
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Además, las correlaciones medidas entre los perfiles de anticuerpos y el estado de la tuberculosis en el presente estudio tendrán que ser validadas en poblaciones independientes.
La identificación de los perfiles inmunes de las características de estado de la tuberculosis sugiere esa progresión de
M. tuberculosis latente a infección activa, que presumiblemente está acompañada por la multiplicación bacteriana resumida, puede estar también acompañada por cambios de la composición antígena bacteriana. De esta manera, asintomáticamente, los individuos infectados que están progresando hacia la reactivación de la enfermedad pueden ser serológicamente distinguibles de aquellos que no lo están. La identificación de "progresores" a través de pantallas inmunológicas ayudaría grandemente al objetivo del tratamiento de la tuberculosis latente.
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