RESUMO

Aspergillosis became an important opportunistic mycosis during the last years, with a great variety of clinical manifestations. To contribute to the replenishing of this mycosis serodiagnosis, biologic reactives (antigens and antisera) were prepared from strains of the species Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus terreus for their use in immunoprecipitation assays. The reactives were assessed by double immunospreading versus a reference commercial system; satisfactory results were obtained, and this guarantees the widening of the aspergillosis serodiagnosis in the Mycology Laboratory of the "Pedro Kourí" the Tropical Medicine Institute (IPK) with important imports savings.

Assuntos

Antígenos de Fungos , Aspergilose/diagnóstico , Aspergillus flavus/imunologia , Aspergillus niger/imunologia , Soros Imunes , Animais , Antígenos de Fungos/isolamento & purificação , Humanos , Soros Imunes/isolamento & purificação , Imunização , Testes de Precipitina/métodos , Coelhos