Schistosoma mansoni IgG antibodies

IgG antibodies against Schistosoma mansoni

Determination of IgG antibodies against Schistosoma mansoni is performed in the diagnosis of schistosomiasis. This is a disease parasitic disease, caused by the flukes of the genus Schistosoma, which include Schistosoma mansoni which includes Schistosoma mansoni - otherwise known as the venous fluke, a species found in Africa, South America, Asia, as well as the the Arabian Peninsula. Human infection occurs through bathing in water contaminated with larvae. Penetrating the skin, the larvae enter enter the circulation and, along with the blood, move to various organs of the body. There they mature and copulate, and then migrate into the intestine and lay eggs there. The eggs of the fluke through the urinary or gastrointestinal tract they can escape from the body or through the bloodstream enter various organs and there induce inflammation inflammation, as a result of which damage can occur to the organ in where they are located. Parasite eggs can reach the skin, brain, muscles, adrenal glands, eyes, urinary bladder. They can also penetrate into the uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries. Adult parasites reside in the lumen of vessels supplying, among others, the intestines, liver or the urinary bladder. Determination of IgG antibodies to schistosome is a non-invasive test that can diagnose the infection even before the proliferation of the fluke occurs.