2017-02-202017-02-201973-12BARBOSA, William; PINHEIRO, Zair Benedita; OLIVEIRA, Raquel Lopes de. Eletroimunodifusão no diagnóstico do calazar com os antígenos de leishmania donovani, leishmania brasiliensis e "leptomonas pessoal" – resultados preliminares. Revista de Patologia Tropical, Goiânia, v. 2, n. 4, p. 377- 386, out./dez. 1973. Disponível em: < https://www.revistas.ufg.br/iptsp/article/view/22665/13503>.1980-8178http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/handle/ri/11401Será from 11 patients with visceral leishmaniasis, confirmei! by parasítologie examination and clinicai control were studied by counterimmunoelectrophoresis using antigens of Leishmania brasiliensis, Leptomonas pessoal and L. donovanl. Positive results were 90,0%; 72,7% and 96,6% respectively. Among 60 control será tested (16 of Chagas' disease, 12 of mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, 12 of tuberculosis, 12 of South American blastomycosis and 8 of several other diseases) only 4 of tuberculosis and l of South American blastomycosis gave cross reaction with the aniigen of L. pessoai. The method is very practical and cheap and showed high sensitivity and great specificity.porAcesso AbertoArtigo