Frozen blood clots can be used for the diagnosis of distinct Plasmodium species in man and non-human primates from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Abstract Background Zoonotic infections with epidemic potential, as non-human primate malaria and yellow fever (YF), can overlap geographically. Optimizing a small blood sample for diagnosis and surveillance is of great importance. Blood are routinely collected for YF diagnosis and blood clots usual...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:1753aa01af674b738873a765b55eb8f6 2023-05-15T15:05:12+02:00 Frozen blood clots can be used for the diagnosis of distinct Plasmodium species in man and non-human primates from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Filipe Vieira Santos de Abreu Larissa Rodrigues Gomes Aline Rosa Lavigne Mello Cesare Bianco-Júnior Anielle de Pina-Costa Edmilson dos Santos Danilo Simonini Teixeira Patrícia Brasil Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-018-2485-0 https://doaj.org/article/1753aa01af674b738873a765b55eb8f6 EN eng BMC http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12936-018-2485-0 https://doaj.org/toc/1475-2875 doi:10.1186/s12936-018-2485-0 1475-2875 https://doaj.org/article/1753aa01af674b738873a765b55eb8f6 Malaria Journal, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-5 (2018) Blood clot Plasmodium Alouatta guariba clamitans Non-human-primates Yellow fever Atlantic Forest Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 article 2018 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-018-2485-0 2022-12-31T13:17:42Z Abstract Background Zoonotic infections with epidemic potential, as non-human primate malaria and yellow fever (YF), can overlap geographically. Optimizing a small blood sample for diagnosis and surveillance is of great importance. Blood are routinely collected for YF diagnosis and blood clots usually discarded after serum obtention. Aiming to take sample advantage, the sensitivity of a PCR using extracted DNA from long-term frozen clots from human and non-human primates for detection of Plasmodium spp. in low parasitaemia conditions was assayed. Results Malaria diagnosis with DNA extracted from blood clots generated results in agreement with samples obtained with whole blood, including mixed Plasmodium vivax/simium and Plasmodium malariae/brasilianum infections. Conclusion Blood clots from human and non-human primates may be an important and low cost source of DNA for malaria surveillance in the Atlantic Forest. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Malaria Journal 17 1 |
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Blood clot Plasmodium Alouatta guariba clamitans Non-human-primates Yellow fever Atlantic Forest Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 Filipe Vieira Santos de Abreu Larissa Rodrigues Gomes Aline Rosa Lavigne Mello Cesare Bianco-Júnior Anielle de Pina-Costa Edmilson dos Santos Danilo Simonini Teixeira Patrícia Brasil Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz Frozen blood clots can be used for the diagnosis of distinct Plasmodium species in man and non-human primates from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest |
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Abstract Background Zoonotic infections with epidemic potential, as non-human primate malaria and yellow fever (YF), can overlap geographically. Optimizing a small blood sample for diagnosis and surveillance is of great importance. Blood are routinely collected for YF diagnosis and blood clots usually discarded after serum obtention. Aiming to take sample advantage, the sensitivity of a PCR using extracted DNA from long-term frozen clots from human and non-human primates for detection of Plasmodium spp. in low parasitaemia conditions was assayed. Results Malaria diagnosis with DNA extracted from blood clots generated results in agreement with samples obtained with whole blood, including mixed Plasmodium vivax/simium and Plasmodium malariae/brasilianum infections. Conclusion Blood clots from human and non-human primates may be an important and low cost source of DNA for malaria surveillance in the Atlantic Forest. |
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Filipe Vieira Santos de Abreu Larissa Rodrigues Gomes Aline Rosa Lavigne Mello Cesare Bianco-Júnior Anielle de Pina-Costa Edmilson dos Santos Danilo Simonini Teixeira Patrícia Brasil Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz |
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Filipe Vieira Santos de Abreu Larissa Rodrigues Gomes Aline Rosa Lavigne Mello Cesare Bianco-Júnior Anielle de Pina-Costa Edmilson dos Santos Danilo Simonini Teixeira Patrícia Brasil Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira Maria de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz |
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Frozen blood clots can be used for the diagnosis of distinct Plasmodium species in man and non-human primates from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest |
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Frozen blood clots can be used for the diagnosis of distinct Plasmodium species in man and non-human primates from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest |
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Frozen blood clots can be used for the diagnosis of distinct Plasmodium species in man and non-human primates from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest |
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Frozen blood clots can be used for the diagnosis of distinct Plasmodium species in man and non-human primates from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest |
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Frozen blood clots can be used for the diagnosis of distinct Plasmodium species in man and non-human primates from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest |
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frozen blood clots can be used for the diagnosis of distinct plasmodium species in man and non-human primates from the brazilian atlantic forest |
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