I am looking for a researcher working on Babesiosis to collaborate with, in order to detect IgG antibodies on human and bovine serum samples from Colombia. Any suggestion?
A researcher who works with me is working with Babesia bovis, bigemina and Anaplasma marginale. We will standardize ELISA this month, probably. We will use a standardization made by Flabio Ribeiro de Araújo.
We do research on Babesia bovis and use ELISA to detect IgG antibodies in bovine samples but for research purposes only. For diagnosis services you could contact Dr. Susana Echaide at INTA Rafaela ([email protected])
La Unidad de Babesiosis del Centro Nacional de Parasitología del INIFAP en Cuernavaca, México realiza tales diagnósticos y mediciones rutinariamente. Sin embargo juzgo muy difícil poder trabajar muestras de sueros de bovinos de Colombia, por las restricciones zoosanitarias. Indudablemente los colegas de EMBRAPA en Brasil ó del INTA en Argentina, son reconocidos internacionalmente y pueden apoyarlos. Igualmente, me imagino el Dr. Benavides que estuvo en CORPOICA muchos años y ahora se encuentra en la Universidad La Salle, podría ser una ayuda más próxima. Ánimo.
We market IFA slides for B. bovis and B. bigemina, as wells as collaborate in the U.S. on some topics with bovine babesiosis. We are much more interested in human babesiosis, however, and are working with MO1 strain and microti. We also recommend IgM titers, which can be performed with our materials and is a vastly underrated test.