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PLoS One ; 19(3): e0299244, 2024.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38478483

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: The CD4 T lymphocyte count in people living with HIV (PLHIV) is a predictor for the progression of the disease (AIDS), survival and response to antiretroviral treatment (ART). A CD4 T lymphocyte count of less than 200 cells/mm3 is indicative of a greater risk for the onset of opportunistic diseases and death. Defaulting on treatment for tuberculosis (TB) may impact immune recovery in PLHIV who are taking ART. The aim of this study was to investigate an association of the CD4 lymphocyte with TB treatment Trajectory and with death. METHODS: A cohort of PLHIV over eighteen years of age and who were taking ART and who had defaulted on pulmonary TB treatment. Latent Class analysis was used to identify different trajectories of CD4 T lymphocyte counts over time. RESULTS: Latent class 1 (High CD4 trajectory) grouped individuals together who were characterized as maintaining a low probability (0 to 29%) of a CD4 count ≤ 200 cells/mm3over time, while latent class 2 (Low CD4 trajectory) grouped individuals together with a high probability (93% to 60%), and latent class 3 (Fluctuating CD4 trajectory), grouped individuals with a fluctuating probability (66% to 0%). The chance of defaulting on treatment earlier (≤ 90 days) was four times higher in latent class 2 (Low CD4 trajectory). Although there was no statistical significance, there was a higher frequency of deaths in this same latent class. CONCLUSION: Individuals with a high probability of a CD4 count ≤ 200 cells/ mm3 should be monitored in order to avoid treatment default and thereby prevent death. New studies should be conducted with a larger sample size and a longer follow-up time in PLHIV who initiated ART treatment early so as to support clinical decisions for a better understanding of immune behavior.


Assuntos
Infecções por HIV , Tuberculose Pulmonar , Tuberculose , Humanos , Infecções por HIV/complicações , Infecções por HIV/tratamento farmacológico , Tuberculose/tratamento farmacológico , Tuberculose/complicações , Linfócitos T CD4-Positivos , Tuberculose Pulmonar/tratamento farmacológico , Tuberculose Pulmonar/complicações , Contagem de Linfócito CD4 , Antirretrovirais/uso terapêutico
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Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg ; 116(1): 19-25, 2022 01 19.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33728455

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: Periportal fibrosis (PPF) is the major pathological consequence of Schistosoma mansoni infection. The Coutinho index-the alkaline phosphatase (ALP) to platelet ratio ([ALP/upper limit of normality {ULN}]/platelet count [106/L] x 100)-was validated. Validation consisted of modest laboratory tests to predict advanced PPF. METHODS: A total of 378 individuals from an endemic area of Brazil with a previous history of the disease and/or a positive parasitological examination were evaluated. We used ultrasound examination as the gold standard for classification of the PPF pattern and measured the biological markers of the index. RESULTS: Forty-one individuals (10.8%) without PPF, 291 (77%) with moderate PPF and 46 (12.2%) with advanced PPF, were identified. ALP and platelet count were used for the index. The cut-off point ≥0.228 predicted the presence of fibrosis with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) of 0.56, sensitivity of 68.6% and specificity of 46.3%. There was an absence of PPF in 46.3% of individuals without fibrosis and the presence of PPF in 68.5% of cases with moderate and advanced ultrasound fibrosis. The identification of advanced fibrosis with a cut-off point ≥0.316 revealed an AUROC curve of 0.70, sensitivity of 67.4% and specificity of 68.3%, thus confirming the advanced phase in 65.2% of cases compared with ultrasound. CONCLUSION: The Coutinho index was able to predict advanced PPF in most individuals. It is valid as a new tool, uses routine laboratory tests and therefore is more accessible for screening patients with a severe form of the disease in endemic areas.


Assuntos
Esquistossomose mansoni , Fibrose , Humanos , Cirrose Hepática/diagnóstico , Cirrose Hepática/patologia , Curva ROC , Esquistossomose mansoni/diagnóstico , Sensibilidade e Especificidade
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PLoS One ; 16(5): e0251861, 2021.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33999968

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Visceral Leishmaniasis and HIV-AIDS coinfection (VL/HIV) is considered a life-threatening pathology when undiagnosed and untreated, due to the immunosuppression caused by both diseases. Serological tests largely used for the VL diagnosis include the direct agglutination test (DAT), ELISA and immunochromatographic (ICT) assays. For VL diagnosis in HIV infections, different studies have shown that the use of the DAT assay facilitates the VL diagnosis in co-infected patients, since the performance of the most widely used ELISA and ICT tests, based on the recombinant protein rK39, are much less efficient in HIV co-infections. In this scenario, alternative recombinant antigens may help the development of new serological diagnostic methods which may improve the VL diagnosis for the co-infection cases. This work aimed to evaluate the use of the recombinant Lci2 antigen, related to, but antigenically more diverse than rK39, for VL diagnosis in co-infected sera through ELISA assays. A direct comparison between recombinant Lci2 and rK39 was thus carried out. The two proteins were first tested using indirect ELISA with sera from VL afflicted individuals and healthy controls, with similar performances. They were then tested with two different sets of VL/HIV co-infected cases and a significant drop in performance, for one of these groups, was observed for rK39 (32% sensitivity), but not for Lci2 (98% sensitivity). In fact, an almost perfect agreement (Kappa: 0.93) between the Lci2 ELISA and DAT was observed for the coinfected VL/HIV patients. Lci2 then has the potential to be used as a new tool for the VL diagnosis of VL/HIV co-infections.


Assuntos
Anticorpos Antiprotozoários/isolamento & purificação , Infecções por HIV/genética , Leishmania infantum/isolamento & purificação , Leishmaniose Visceral/diagnóstico , Proteínas Recombinantes/isolamento & purificação , Testes de Aglutinação , Anticorpos Antiprotozoários/imunologia , Antígenos de Protozoários/imunologia , Coinfecção/diagnóstico , Coinfecção/genética , Coinfecção/parasitologia , Ensaio de Imunoadsorção Enzimática , HIV/patogenicidade , Infecções por HIV/complicações , Infecções por HIV/parasitologia , Infecções por HIV/virologia , Humanos , Leishmania infantum/genética , Leishmania infantum/patogenicidade , Leishmaniose Visceral/genética , Leishmaniose Visceral/parasitologia , Leishmaniose Visceral/virologia , Proteínas de Protozoários/imunologia , Proteínas Recombinantes/genética
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Hum Immunol ; 80(11): 908-916, 2019 Nov.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31420207

RESUMO

While the role of cytokine genes has been well documented in the context of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis infection, no studies have addressed the influence of human leukocyte antigen-G (HLA-G) in susceptibility/resistance to American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis (ATL). Here, we evaluated the influences of HLA-G, IL-10, TNF-A and IFN-G in the susceptibility and clinical manifestations of ATL. DNA of 114 ATL patients and 346 healthy individuals were sequenced for well-documented polymorphisms in HLA-G 3' untranslated region (UTR), in IL-10 and TNF-A promoters and in IFN-G intron 1. Soluble HLA-G (sHLA-G) and cytokine levels were evaluated by ELISA and flow cytometry, respectively. Analyses were performed using GraphPad and R-package software. Individuals bearing HLA-G +3142G/G showed an association with increased risk for ATL, whereas those carrying the HLA-G +3142C/G and one copy of UTR6 haplotype, showed an association with decreased risk for ATL. sHLA-G was overexpressed in "susceptible" patients compared to the "resistant'' one, and also in patients bearing +3142G/G genotype. From these results, HLA-G +3142G/G may be considered as genotype of susceptibility and UTR6 as marker of protection to ATL. Our findings showed a participation of HLA-G in the pathogenesis of the ATL.


Assuntos
Região 3'-Flanqueadora/genética , Genótipo , Antígenos HLA-G/genética , Leishmaniose/genética , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Brasil , Criança , Feminino , Frequência do Gene , Estudos de Associação Genética , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Haplótipos , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Adulto Jovem
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Int J Epidemiol ; 38(5): 1285-96, 2009 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19656772

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis is known to have socio-economic determinants at individual and at area levels, but it is not known whether they are independent, whether they interact and their relative contributions to the burden of tuberculosis. METHODS: A case-control study was conducted in Recife, Brazil, to investigate individual and area social determinants of tuberculosis, to explore the relationship between determinants at the two levels and to calculate their relative contribution to the burden of tuberculosis. It included 1452 cases of tuberculosis diagnosed by the tuberculosis services and 5808 controls selected at random from questionnaires completed for the demographic census. Exhaustive information on social factors was collected from cases, using the questionnaire used in the census. Socio-economic information for areas was downloaded from the census. Multilevel logistic regression investigated individual and area effects. RESULTS: There was a marked and independent influence of social variables on the risk of tuberculosis, both at individual and area levels. At individual level, being aged >or=20, being male, being illiterate, not working in the previous 7 days and possessing few goods, all increased the risk of tuberculosis. At area level, living in an area with many illiterate people and where few households own a computer also increased this risk; individual and area levels did not appear to interact. Twice as many cases were attributable to social variables at individual level than at area level. CONCLUSIONS: Although individual characteristics are the main contributor to the risk of tuberculosis, contextual characteristics make a substantial independent contribution.


Assuntos
Pobreza/estatística & dados numéricos , Fatores Socioeconômicos , Tuberculose Pulmonar/epidemiologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Distribuição por Idade , Idoso , Brasil/epidemiologia , Criança , Métodos Epidemiológicos , Feminino , Política de Saúde , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Distribuição por Sexo , Tuberculose Pulmonar/diagnóstico , Tuberculose Pulmonar/etiologia , Adulto Jovem
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