Accurate real-time PCR strategy for monitoring bloodstream parasitic loads in chagas disease patients.
Background This report describes a real-time PCR (Q-PCR) strategy to quantify Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) DNA in peripheral blood samples from Chagas disease patients targeted to conserved motifs within the repetitive satellite sequence. Methodology/principal findings The Q-PCR has a detection limi...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:5f7dacb14bf04d5099766327b89ba849 2023-05-15T15:12:35+02:00 Accurate real-time PCR strategy for monitoring bloodstream parasitic loads in chagas disease patients. Tomas Duffy Margarita Bisio Jaime Altcheh Juan Miguel Burgos Mirta Diez Mariano Jorge Levin Roberto Rene Favaloro Hector Freilij Alejandro Gabriel Schijman 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000419 https://doaj.org/article/5f7dacb14bf04d5099766327b89ba849 EN eng Public Library of Science (PLoS) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/19381287/pdf/?tool=EBI https://doaj.org/toc/1935-2727 https://doaj.org/toc/1935-2735 1935-2727 1935-2735 doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000419 https://doaj.org/article/5f7dacb14bf04d5099766327b89ba849 PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol 3, Iss 4, p e419 (2009) Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 article 2009 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000419 2022-12-31T05:00:03Z Background This report describes a real-time PCR (Q-PCR) strategy to quantify Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) DNA in peripheral blood samples from Chagas disease patients targeted to conserved motifs within the repetitive satellite sequence. Methodology/principal findings The Q-PCR has a detection limit of 0.1 and 0.01 parasites/mL, with a dynamic range of 10(6) and 10(7) for Silvio X10 cl1 (T. cruzi I) and Cl Brener stocks (T. cruzi IIe), respectively, an efficiency of 99%, and a coefficient of determination (R(2)) of 0.998. In order to express accurately the parasitic loads: (1) we adapted a commercial kit based on silica-membrane technology to enable efficient processing of Guanidine Hydrochloride-EDTA treated blood samples and minimize PCR inhibition; (2) results were normalized incorporating a linearized plasmid as an internal standard of the whole procedure; and (3) a correction factor according to the representativity of satellite sequences in each parasite lineage group was determined using a modified real-time PCR protocol (Lg-PCR). The Q-PCR strategy was applied (1) to estimate basal parasite loads in 43 pediatric Chagas disease patients, (2) to follow-up 38 of them receiving treatment with benznidazole, and (3) to monitor three chronic Chagas heart disease patients who underwent heart-transplantation and displayed events of clinical reactivation due to immunosupression. Conclusion/significance All together, the high analytical sensitivity of the Q-PCR strategy, the low levels of intra- and inter-assay variations, as well as the accuracy provided by the Lg-PCR based correction factor support this methodology as a key laboratory tool for monitoring clinical reactivation and etiological treatment outcome in Chagas disease patients. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 3 4 e419 |
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Background This report describes a real-time PCR (Q-PCR) strategy to quantify Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) DNA in peripheral blood samples from Chagas disease patients targeted to conserved motifs within the repetitive satellite sequence. Methodology/principal findings The Q-PCR has a detection limit of 0.1 and 0.01 parasites/mL, with a dynamic range of 10(6) and 10(7) for Silvio X10 cl1 (T. cruzi I) and Cl Brener stocks (T. cruzi IIe), respectively, an efficiency of 99%, and a coefficient of determination (R(2)) of 0.998. In order to express accurately the parasitic loads: (1) we adapted a commercial kit based on silica-membrane technology to enable efficient processing of Guanidine Hydrochloride-EDTA treated blood samples and minimize PCR inhibition; (2) results were normalized incorporating a linearized plasmid as an internal standard of the whole procedure; and (3) a correction factor according to the representativity of satellite sequences in each parasite lineage group was determined using a modified real-time PCR protocol (Lg-PCR). The Q-PCR strategy was applied (1) to estimate basal parasite loads in 43 pediatric Chagas disease patients, (2) to follow-up 38 of them receiving treatment with benznidazole, and (3) to monitor three chronic Chagas heart disease patients who underwent heart-transplantation and displayed events of clinical reactivation due to immunosupression. Conclusion/significance All together, the high analytical sensitivity of the Q-PCR strategy, the low levels of intra- and inter-assay variations, as well as the accuracy provided by the Lg-PCR based correction factor support this methodology as a key laboratory tool for monitoring clinical reactivation and etiological treatment outcome in Chagas disease patients. |
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Accurate real-time PCR strategy for monitoring bloodstream parasitic loads in chagas disease patients. |
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Accurate real-time PCR strategy for monitoring bloodstream parasitic loads in chagas disease patients. |
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Accurate real-time PCR strategy for monitoring bloodstream parasitic loads in chagas disease patients. |
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Accurate real-time PCR strategy for monitoring bloodstream parasitic loads in chagas disease patients. |
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