Isolation and molecular characterization of Toxoplasma gondii from placental tissues of pregnant women who received toxoplasmosis treatment during an outbreak in southern Brazil.

Autor: Minuzzi, Camila E., Portella, Luiza Pires, Bräunig, Patricia, Sangioni, Luis Antonio, Ludwig, Aline, Ramos, Luciane Silva, Pacheco, Liliane, Silva, Camila Ribeiro, Pacheco, Flávia Caselli, Menegolla, Ivone Andreatta, Farinha, Lourdes Bonfleur, Kist, Priscila Pauli, Breganó, Regina Mitsuka, Nino, Beatriz de Souza Lima, Cardoso Martins, Felippe Danyel, Monica, Thais Cabral, Ferreira, Fernanda Pinto, Britto, Isadora, Signori, Ariana, Medici, Kerlei Cristina
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Zdroj: PLoS ONE; 1/30/2020, Vol. 15 Issue 1, p1-7, 7p
Abstrakt: Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan that has great genetic diversity and is prevalent worldwide. In 2018, an outbreak of toxoplasmosis occurred in Santa Maria, Brazil, which was considered the largest outbreak ever described in the world. This paper describes the isolation and molecular characterization of Toxoplasma gondii from the placenta of two pregnant women with acute toxoplasmosis who had live births and were receiving treatment for toxoplasmosis during the outbreak. For this, placental tissue samples from two patients underwent isolation by mice bioassay, conventional PCR and genotyping using PCR-RFLP with twelve markers. Both samples were positive in isolation in mice. The isolate was lethal to mice, suggesting high virulence. In addition, the samples were positive in conventional PCR and isolates submitted to PCR-RFLP genotyping presented an atypical genotype, which had never been described before. This research contributes to the elucidation of this great outbreak in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index
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