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Evaluation of a novel homemade sandwich ELISA and lateral flow assays conjugated with gold-nanoparticles for detection of human fascioliasis antigens

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Infectious diseases

Abstract

Background and rationale: Fascioliasis is a neglected parasitic infection that affects both humans and animals. It is caused by the trematode parasites known as Fasciola hepatica and Fasciola gigantica, which primarily infect the bile duct. Fascioliasis has a significant negative social and economic impact, with estimated infected rate in livestock (18%) and 2.6 million persons worldwide. The highly prevalence was recorded in least developed countries.  The actual challenge is to obtain a cheap and efficient diagnosis technique to diagnose the early mild stage of fascioliasis, parasitological examination techniques are usually effective in the final stage of infection when a large number of fascioliasis eggs are execrated in stool.  Aim: The aim of this study was conducted to develop and compare a novel diagnostic lateral flow assay and sandwich ELISA for detection of active fascioliasis infection. The conjugation of fascioliasis tegumental antibodies to AuNPs through covalent conjugation using EDC/Sulfo-NHS, to application in the setup of immuno-chromatography lateral flow assay (LFA) and sandwich ELISA. The novel LFA succeeded to diagnose (37 out of 38 true positive infected fascioliasis group), (2 out of 81 true negative other parasites infected group) and (0 out of 27 negative control group), the sensitivity, specificity, NPV and PPV of were 97.4%, 98.2%, 99.1%, and 94.8%, respectively. while the sensitivity, specificity, NPV and PPV of sandwich ELISA were 94.7%, 96.3%, 98.1%, and 90%, respectively. Conclusion: The higher sensitivity and specificity were recorded in LFA.  Lateral flow assays (LFA) technique could be used as Ideal diagnostic techniques in monitoring and control of fasciolosis infection.

DOI

10.21608/mid.2024.257360.1728

Keywords

Diagnosis of Fasciola gigantica, Gold nanoparticles AuNPs, Sandwich ELISA, Immunochromatography Lateral flow strip LFA, Covalent conjugation of AuNPs

Authors

First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Elshall

MiddleName

Nady

Affiliation

Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt

Email

dr.melshall@gmail.com

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Orcid

0009-0006-4550-022X

First Name

Ibrahim

Last Name

Shalash

MiddleName

Ali

Affiliation

Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt

Email

ibrahimshalash@yahoo.com

City

Giza

Orcid

-

First Name

Alaa

Last Name

Samn

MiddleName

Abdelaziz

Affiliation

Faculty of science, Al Azhar university, Egypt

Email

prof2000bio@gmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0003-2094-8096

Volume

5

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

47401

Issue Date

2024-05-01

Receive Date

2023-12-23

Publish Date

2024-05-01

Page Start

844

Page End

855

Print ISSN

2682-4132

Online ISSN

2682-4140

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41

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Original Article

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1,157

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Publication Title

Microbes and Infectious Diseases

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https://mid.journals.ekb.eg/

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Evaluation of a novel homemade sandwich ELISA and lateral flow assays conjugated with gold-nanoparticles for detection of human fascioliasis antigens

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25 Dec 2024