Project description:Pythiosis is a deadly infectious disease of humans and animals living in tropical and subtropical countries. The causative agent is the oomycete Pythium insidiosum. Treatment of pythiosis is challenging. Therefore, protein profiling could generate the important information for further drug development.
Project description:Pythiosis, whose etiological agent is the oomycete Pythium insidiosum, is a life-
threatening disease that occurs mainly in tropical and subtropical countries,
affecting several animal species, being more frequent in horses in Brazil and
humans in Thailand. We investigated which P. insidiosum antigens may be recognized by horses and humans with pythiosis from Brazil and Thailand, respectively.
