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PARASITOLOGY
卷 148, 期 1, 页码 110-114出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182020001936
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Asymptomatic visceral leishmaniasis; blood donors; CytB; Leishmania infantum; qPCR
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- National Sanitary Surveillance Agency
- National Technological Development
- Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel
Visceral leishmaniasis is an endemic disease observed in over 60 countries, with about 500,000 new cases annually. While the diagnostic procedure for symptomatic forms is well established, there is no consensus on the best method for identifying asymptomatic patients. Recent studies have shown that molecular techniques have good sensitivity and specificity in identifying asymptomatic individuals, especially those infected with Leishmania infantum in endemic regions like Brazil.
Visceral leishmaniasis is an endemic protozoonosis observed in over 60 countries, with over 500 000 new cases recorded annually. Although the diagnostic procedure of its symptomatic forms is well established, for asymptomatic patients, who represent about 85% of those infected, there is no consensus on the best method for its identification. Recent studies have presented molecular techniques as viable identification methods, with good sensitivity and specificity indices in asymptomatic individuals. Therefore, we aimed to use molecular methods to assess their effectiveness in identifying the presence of asymptomatic infection by Leishmania infantum (L. infantum) individuals from endemic regions of Brazil. Screening was performed by real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and confirmed by sequencing the cytochrome B gene. Of the 127 samples [from 608 blood donors who had participated in a previous study, of which 34 were positive by the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) rK39] tested by qPCR, 31 (24.4%) were positive. In the sequencing of 10 qPCR-positive samples, five were identified as L. infantum. Complimentary samples of the ELISA rK39 and conventional PCR showed only reasonable and low agreement with qPCR, respectively. The qPCR confirmed the presence of infection in five of the 10 sequenced samples, ELISA confirmed three, and the conventional PCR confirmed none.
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