USEFULNESS OF kDNA PCR IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS REACTIVATION IN CO-INFECTED PATIENTS

Autor:	Antonio Carlos Nicodemo, Valdir Sabbaga Amato, Felipe Francisco Tuon, Regina Maia de Souza, Thelma Suely Okay, Lucia Maria Almeida Braz
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Visceral Leishmaniasis Polymerase Chain Reaction Diagnosis Co-infection Visceral Leishmaniasis-HIV Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216
Zdroj:	Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, Vol 55, Iss 6, Pp 429-431 (2013)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1678-9946 0036-4665
DOI:	10.1590/S0036-46652013000600011
Popis:	SUMMARY It is important to develop new methods for diagnosing relapses in the co-infection of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and HIV to enable earlier detection using less invasive methods. We report a case of a co-infected patient who had relapses after VL treatment, where the qualitative kDNA PCR showed a good performance. The kDNA PCR seems to be a useful tool for diagnosing VL and may be a good marker for predicting VL relapses after treatment of co-infected patients with clinical symptoms of the disease.
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