Molecular diagnosis of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: identification of Leishmania species by SSUrDNA PCR and G6PD PCR / Diagnóstico molecular de Leishmaniose Tegumentar Americana: identificação de espécies de Leishmania por SSUrDNA PCR e G6PD PCR
AUTOR(ES)
Ana Carolina Stocco de Lima
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2010
RESUMO
American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) presents a serious problem of public healthy. In Brazil many species are recognized as pathogenic to humans, therefore differential diagnostic is necessary to understand the epidemiological profile of ACL in endemic areas. Fifty-three paraffinembedded skin biopsies of ACL patients from Pará (N=33) and Maranhão (20) States, were submitted to different protocols of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for identification of their causative agents. Biopsies were deparaffinized and DNA were extracted using phenol-chloroform, quantified and submitted to PCR reaction, using small subunit coding sequence (SSUrDNA) and enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD). The target of G6PD was used both in conventional PCR reactions (cPCR) and quantitative PCR (qPCR). The reactions of cPCR and Nested PCR SSUrDNA showed positive result for the genus Leishmania in 40 (83.3%) of the samples. Twenty-seven positive samples were submitted to sequencing and 10 were identified as L. (Viannia) sp. and 17 as L. (L.) amazonensis. The G6PD PCR identified 9 samples as L. (V.) braziliensis, 2 from Pará (6%) and 7 from Maranhão (35%).Four samples were quantified in G6PD qPCR, even this is a single copy. These results indicate that specific sequences from Leishmania sp. present in multiple copies should be chosen in relation to those from unique copies in paraffin-embedded tissues, once is frequent cases of ACL with low parasitism, consequently small DNA concentrations and that SSUrDNA can be a good target to diagnostic and epidemiologic studies of ACL. The qPCR allowed the detection and identification of L. (Viannia) sp. in a single round of amplification in four samples that when showed positive results only in the Nested or Semi Nested cPCR suggesting a higher sensitivity offered by qPCR
ASSUNTO(S)
leishmania (viannia) braziliensis diagnosis diagnóstico leishmaniose cutânea polimerase chain reaction leishmania (leishmania) amazonensis leishmania (viannia) braziliensis reação em cadeia da polimerase leishmania (leishmania) amazonensis cutaneous leishmaniasis
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