Immunological Research Progress of Parasitic Diseases

A special issue of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease (ISSN 2414-6366).

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Department of Immunology, Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México, México City 04510, México
Interests: Immunobiology of parasitic infections; molecular parasitology; host-parasite relationships; Neuroimmunoendocrine network in parasitic infections
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Departamento de Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City 04510, México
Interests: zoonotic diseases; host-parasite interactions; parasitic diseases; veterinary parasitology; infectious diseases; molecular parasitology; helminthology; immunoparasitology

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Departamento de Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey 64440, Mexico
Interests: host-parasite interactions; parasitic diseases; molecular parasitology; helminthology; immunoparasitology; trichinellosis; parasite immunomodulatory proteins

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Dear Colleagues,

Infections by parasites, starvation, insufficient shelter, and lack of clean water sources are the greatest barriers to health in our world’s growing population. Several parasitic infections that are very common throughout the world frequently occur with mild, obscure symptoms or none at all. It is common for a host to be asymptomatic, which makes more difficult both the diagnostic and the on-time treatment. Parasitic infections that are thought to be the most prevalent worldwide include toxoplasmosis, ascariasis, toxocariasis, hookworm disease, amoebiasis, and trichomoniasis. The scope of this topic could be immense, as there are hundreds of parasitic species that infect humans, and also because parasitic infections are considered one of the leading causes of high morbidity and mortality in underdeveloped countries, mainly in children and the elderly, affecting the physical and intellectual capabilities of such population and resulting in high expenses in treatment and rehabilitation. Moreover, in recent years the massive migration of people from the southern countries, where parasitic diseases are common, towards developed countries fueled that many parasitic infections are now reemerging and generating new health problems at a global level. The knowledge about parasitic diseases at different levels, such as life cycles, structures, molecular biology, development of new drugs and vaccines, and their ability to escape or modulate different mechanisms of defense of their hosts, is essential to the better development of therapies and diagnostics. The study of parasites is inconceivable without the participation of the immune system. However, every year it is more difficult to find an audience in immunology meetings for researchers working with parasitic infections; conversely, it is also difficult to find a place for the immunologists during parasitology meetings. That is one of the reasons for this special issue, put together leading researchers in the field of immunoparasitology, an area that needs to be fueled to accelerate the development of new vaccines as well as new drugs or even for the development of immunotherapy in parasitic diseases. In this current special issue, we will provide updates on several parasitic diseases through review papers as well as several original research papers.

Dr. Jorge Morales-Montor
Dr. Víctor Hugo Del Río-Araiza
Dr. Romel Hernandez-Bello
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Keywords

  • epidemiology
  • host-parasite interaction
  • comorbidities and parasitism
  • new drugs
  • risk factors in parasitic diseases
  • vaccines in parasitology
  • immune response in paratenic hosts
  • immune response in vectors (ticks, mosquitoes, etc)
  • climate change and parasite infections
  • environmental pollution and parasite infections
  • inflammation and parasites
  • sex associated susceptibility to parasites
  • immune response to helminths
  • immune response to protozoa

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Immunoblotting Identification of Diagnostic Antigens of Paragonimus westermani Type 1 for the Detection of Human Pulmonary Paragonimiasis in North East India
by Kangjam Rekha Devi, Archana Deka, Debdutta Mukherjee, Harpreet Kaur and Kanwar Narain
Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2024, 9(1), 6; https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed9010006 - 22 Dec 2023
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Human pulmonary paragonimiasis, an emerging concern in North East India, frequently masquerades as pulmonary tuberculosis due to clinical and radiological similarities, leading to diagnostic challenges. This research aimed to harness the immunoblotting technique to discern immunodiagnostic protein antigens from both adult worm and [...] Read more.
Human pulmonary paragonimiasis, an emerging concern in North East India, frequently masquerades as pulmonary tuberculosis due to clinical and radiological similarities, leading to diagnostic challenges. This research aimed to harness the immunoblotting technique to discern immunodiagnostic protein antigens from both adult worm and excretory–secretory (ES) extracts of the prevalent Paragonimus westermani type 1 in Arunachal Pradesh, North East India. We studied the time kinetics of immunoreactive patterns in relation to the duration of infection in rodent models. Immunoblot analyses were also conducted using sera from ELISA-positive patients confirmed with paragonimiasis, facilitating the selection of antigenic extracts with diagnostic potential. Further, ES protein antigens were subjected to 2D immunoblot analysis and immunoreactive protein spots identified using MALDI-TOF MS. The immunoreactivity patterns of ES antigens with sera of paragonimiasis-positive patients were detailed, and specific immunoreactive protein antigens were pinpointed using peptide mass fingerprinting (MALDI-TOF). This work underscores the enhanced diagnostic accuracy when combining ELISA with immunoblotting for pulmonary paragonimiasis in regions like North East India, marked by co-existing helminth infections. Full article
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