| Literature DB >> 22753945 |
Manu Vanaerschot1, Saskia Decuypere, Tim Downing, Hideo Imamura, Olivia Stark, Simonne De Doncker, Syamal Roy, Bart Ostyn, Louis Maes, Basudha Khanal, Marleen Boelaert, Gabriele Schönian, Matthew Berriman, François Chappuis, Jean-Claude Dujardin, Shyam Sundar, Suman Rijal.
Abstract
The current standard to assess pentavalent antimonial (SSG) susceptibility of Leishmania is a laborious in vitro assay of which the result has little clinical value because SSG-resistant parasites are also found in SSG-cured patients. Candidate genetic markers for clinically relevant SSG-resistant parasites identified by full genome sequencing were here validated on a larger set of clinical strains. We show that 3 genomic locations suffice to specifically detect the SSG-resistant parasites found only in patients experiencing SSG treatment failure. This finding allows the development of rapid assays to monitor the emergence and spread of clinically relevant SSG-resistant Leishmania parasites.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22753945 PMCID: PMC4125624 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jis424
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Infect Dis ISSN: 0022-1899 Impact factor: 5.226