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Immunoglobulin E antileishmanial antibody response in cutaneous leishmaniasis
Maria L B Sousa-Atta1, Gregório S Salamé, Argemiro D'Oliveira
1Departamento de Análises Clínicas e Toxicológicas, Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40110-160 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology
|January 5, 2002
Abstract:
High levels of antileishmanial immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies are associated with disease activity in visceral leishmaniasis. Herein, we report our observations about the relationship between antileishmanial IgE antibodies and clinical aspects of cutaneous leishmaniasis. This study was carried out with 45 patients (29 male and 16 female), with ages ranging from 11 to 48 years. All subjects were from an area to which leishmaniasis is endemic, Corte de Pedra (Bahia, Brazil), and the duration of the illness was