Congenital Toxoplasmosis Diagnosis: Current Approaches and New Insights.

Autor: Márquez-Mauricio A; Dirección de Investigación, Universidad Anáhuac, Huixquilucan, Mexico., Caballero-Ortega H; Laboratorio de Inmunología Experimental, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Mexico City, Mexico., Gómez-Chávez F; Laboratorio de Enfermedades Osteoarticulares e Inmunológicas, Sección de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigación, ENMyH-Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico. fgomezch@ipn.mx.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Acta parasitologica [Acta Parasitol] 2023 Sep; Vol. 68 (3), pp. 473-480. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jun 27.
DOI: 10.1007/s11686-023-00693-y
Abstrakt: Purpose: The aim of this study is to describe and discuss current disadvantages in congenital toxoplasmosis (CT) diagnosis, and what can be improved or changed through new perspectives and technological advances.
Methods: We used Pubmed, Cochrane, and EBSCO databases to research publications from 10 years to date describing current diagnostic methods for CT. The keywords used for this Mini-Review were Toxoplasma gondii, congenital toxoplasmosis, diagnosis, and prospects using Boolean operators such as AND, OR, identifying scientific publications highlighting the importance of implementing new diagnostic methods.
Results: Current diagnosis methods have several disadvantages, i.e., time-consuming, low sensitivity or specificity, and non-cost effective, that bring up the necessity of improving or developing new approaches. Recombinant proteins can help improve specificity by generating tests that use circulating strains in a specific geographical region, SAG1 and BAG1, as they are expressed during a particular stage of the disease (acute or chronic, respectively), for its use in serological diagnoses, such as capture ELISA and immunochromatography. Point of Care (POC) tests are methods performed at the patient care site, which leads to rapid patient treatment; despite the advantages, several improvements and perspectives are necessary to be implemented globally.
Conclusions: Although already established diagnosis methods for CT may be sufficient in some regions, there is still a persistent demand to develop tests with higher throughput, cost, and time reduction in developing countries, where prevalence is high. New approaches in CT diagnosis, such as recombinant proteins, capture ELISA, immunochromatography, and POC tests methods, can increase performance in terms of specificity and sensitivity simplifying diagnostic tests' requirements.
(© 2023. The Author(s) under exclusive licence to Witold Stefański Institute of Parasitology, Polish Academy of Sciences.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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