Title
Deep Sequencing to Detect Diversity of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in Patients Coinfected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Chagas Disease
Date Issued
15 January 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Bowman N.M.
Balasubramanian S.
Parobek C.
Waltmann A.
Messenger L.A.
Bern C.
Juliano J.J.
Clark D.
Flores J.
Colanzi R.
Choi J.
Galdos G.
Dorn M.
Gandarilla O.
Fortuny E.
Palumbo A.
Ferrufino L.
Reimer M.
Mendoza Guerrero S.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Working Group on Chagas Disease in Bolivia and Peru
Publisher(s)
Oxford University Press
Abstract
Chagas disease, caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, can reactivate and cause severe acute disease in immunocompromised patients such as those infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). We conducted amplicon deep sequencing of a 327-bp fragment of the tcscd5 gene using an Ion Torrent PGM directly from clinical samples from HIV patients with high parasitemia. We describe the within-host diversity, both characterizing the discrete typing unit of the infections and confirming the presence of multistrain infections, directly from clinical samples. This method can rapidly provide information on the genetic diversity of T. cruzi infection, which can have direct impacts on clinical disease.
Start page
243
End page
247
Volume
225
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Enfermedades infecciosas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85119142849
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Infectious Diseases
ISSN of the container
00221899
Sponsor(s)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - K23AI113197, K24AI134990, P30AI050410, R01AI136722 Fogarty International Center - D43TW010074, R25TW009340
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