Jonathon I Ravdin, MD  

Nesbitt Professor and Chairman

Department of Medicine

 University of Minnesota

Presentation: Amebiasis : Clinical Disease in the 21st Century

Recent Publications:

Abd-Alla MD. Ravdin JI. Diagnosis of amoebic colitis by antigen capture ELISA in patients presenting with acute diarrhoea in Cairo, Egypt. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 7(4):365-70, 2002 Apr.
 

Abd-Alla MD. Wahib AA. Ravdin JI. Comparison of antigen-capture ELISA to stool-culture methods for the detection of asymptomatic Entamoeba species infection in Kafer Daoud, Egypt. American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene. 62(5):579-82, 2000 May.
 

Abd-Alla MD. Jackson TF. Reddy S. Ravdin JI. Diagnosis of invasive amebiasis by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay of saliva to detect amebic lectin antigen and anti-lectin immunoglobulin G antibodies. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 38(6):2344-7, 2000 Jun.
 

Pillai DR. Wan PS. Yau YC. Ravdin JI. Kain KC. The cysteine-rich region of the Entamoeba histolytica adherence lectin (170-kilodalton subunit) is sufficient for high-affinity Gal/GalNAc-specific binding in vitro. Infection & Immunity. 67(8):3836-41, 1999 Aug.
 

Abd-Alla MD. Jackson TG. Ravdin JI. Serum IgM antibody response to the galactose-inhibitable adherence lectin of Entameoba histolytica. American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene. 59(3):431-4, 1998 Sep.
 

Pillai DR. Britten D. Ackers JP. Ravdin JI. Kain KC. A gene homologous to hgl2 of Entamoeba histolytica is present and expressed in Entamoeba dispar. Molecular & Biochemical Parasitology. 87(1):101-5, 1997 Jul.
 

Pillai DR. Britten D. Ackers JP. Ravdin JI. Kain KC. The sequence of a highly homologous gene to hgl2* of Entamoeba histolytica that is present and expressed in E.dispar. Archives of Medical Research. 28 Spec No:19-20, 1997.
 

Abou-el-Magd I. Soong CJ. el-Hawey AM. Ravdin JI. Humoral and mucosal IgA antibody response to a recombinant 52-kDa cysteine-rich portion of the Entamoeba histolytica galactose-inhibitable lectin correlates with detection of native 170-kDa lectin antigen in serum of patients with amebic colitis. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 174(1):157-62, 1996 Jul.
 

Beving DE. Soong CJ. Ravdin JI. Oral immunization with a recombinant cysteine-rich section of the Entamoeba histolytica galactose-inhibitable lectin elicits an intestinal secretory immunoglobulin A response that has in vitro adherence inhibition activity. Infection & Immunity. 64(4):1473-6, 1996 Apr.