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  • article 1 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    Incremental Prognostic Value of Echocardiography to Brain Natriuretic Peptide in Patients with Chagas Cardiomyopathy from Endemic Areas
    (2022) MAIA, Marcelo Alves; SABINO, Ester Cerdeira; OLIVEIRA, Lea Campos de; OLIVEIRA, Claudia Di Lorenzo; CARDOSO, Clareci S.; MAIA, Ana Isabel Nobre; VERSIANI, Fellipe Colares P. G.; SILVA, Jose Luiz Padilha da; FERREIRA, Ariela Mota; RIBEIRO, Antonio Luiz P.; NUNES, Maria Carmo P.
  • article 22 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    Risk Score for Predicting 2-Year Mortality in Patients With Chagas Cardiomyopathy From Endemic Areas: SaMi-Trop Cohort Study
    (2020) OLIVEIRA, Claudia Di Lorenzo; NUNES, Maria Carmo P.; COLOSIMO, Enrico Antonio; LIMA, Emilly Malveira de; CARDOSO, Clareci S.; FERREIRA, Ariela Mota; OLIVEIRA, Lea Campos de; MOREIRA, Carlos Henrique Valente; BIERRENBACH, Ana Luiza; HAIKAL, Desiree Sant'Ana; PEIXOTO, Sergio Viana; LIMA-COSTA, Maria Fernanda; SABINO, Ester Cerdeira; RIBEIRO, Antonio Luiz P.
    Background Risk stratification of Chagas disease patients in the limited-resource setting would be helpful in crafting management strategies. We developed a score to predict 2-year mortality in patients with Chagas cardiomyopathy from remote endemic areas. Methods and Results This study enrolled 1551 patients with Chagas cardiomyopathy from Minas Gerais State, Brazil, from the SaMi-Trop cohort (The Sao Paulo-Minas Gerais Tropical Medicine Research Center). Clinical evaluation, ECG, and NT-proBNP (N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide) were performed. A Cox proportional hazards model was used to develop a prediction model based on the key predictors. The end point was all-cause mortality. The patients were classified into 3 risk categories at baseline (low, <2%; intermediate, >= 2% to 10%; high, >= 10%). External validation was performed by applying the score to an independent population with Chagas disease. After 2 years of follow-up, 110 patients died, with an overall mortality rate of 3.505 deaths per 100 person-years. Based on the nomogram, the independent predictors of mortality were assigned points: age (10 points per decade), New York Heart Association functional class higher than I (15 points), heart rate >= 80 beats/min (20 points), QRS duration >= 150 ms (15 points), and abnormal NT-proBNP adjusted by age (55 points). The observed mortality rates in the low-, intermediate-, and high-risk groups were 0%, 3.6%, and 32.7%, respectively, in the derivation cohort and 3.2%, 8.7%, and 19.1%, respectively, in the validation cohort. The discrimination of the score was good in the development cohort (C statistic: 0.82), and validation cohort (C statistic: 0.71). Conclusions In a large population of patients with Chagas cardiomyopathy, a combination of risk factors accurately predicted early mortality. This helpful simple score could be used in remote areas with limited technological resources.
  • article 1 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    Lack of evidence of seronegative infection in an endemic area of Chagas disease
    (2019) OLIVEIRA, Lea Campos de; LEE, Tzong-Hae; FERREIRA, Ariela Mota; BIERRENBACH, Ana Luiza; SOUZA-BASQUEIRA, Marcela de; OLIVEIRA, Claudia Di Lorenzo; CARDOSO, Clareci Silva; MOREIRA, Carlos Henrique Valente; OIKAWA, Marcio K.; RIBEIRO, Antonio Luiz P.; BUSCH, Michael P.; SABINO, Ester Cerdeira
    The diagnosis of Chagas disease is based on the detection of Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi)-specific antibodies. Nonetheless, there is concern about the sensitivity of current serological assays due to reports of T. cruzi PCR positivity among seronegative individuals. The aim of this study was to evaluate if T. cruzi seronegative infections occur in endemic areas. We recruited 2,157 individuals that were identified as having Chagas disease in a public health system database of an endemic region in Brazil. All participants were interviewed and 2,091 had a sample collected for serological and PCR testing. From these, 149 (7.1%) had negative serological results. PCR was positive in 610 samples (31.4%) of the 1,942 seropositive samples but in none of the 149 samples from seronegative participants. True T. cruzi seronegative infections seem to be rare (95% CI 0-3.7) and should not be a concern for blood supply, which relies on antibody screening.
  • article 0 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    Risk Score for Predicting 2-Year Mortality in Patients With Chagas Cardiomyopathy From Endemic Areas: SaMi-Trop Cohort Study (vol 9, e014176, 2020)
    (2021) OLIVEIRA, Claudia Di Lorenzo; NUNES, Maria Carmo P.; COLOSIMO, Enrico Antonio; LIMA, Emilly Malveira de; CARDOSO, Clareci S.; FERREIRA, Ariela Mota; OLIVEIRA, Lea Campos de; MOREIRA, Carlos Henrique Valente; BIERRENBACH, Ana Luiza; HAIKAL, Desiree Sant'Ana; PEIXOTO, Sergio Viana; LIMA-COSTA, Maria Fernanda; SABINO, Ester Cerdeira; RIBEIRO, Antonio Luiz P.
  • article 6 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    Association between typical electrocardiographic abnormalities and NT-proBNP elevation in a large cohort of patients with Chagas disease from endemic area
    (2018) BRITO, Bruno Oliveira de Figueiredo; PINTO-FILHO, Marcelo Martins; CARDOSO, Clareci Silva; OLIVEIRA, Claudia Di Lorenzo; FERREIRA, Ariela Mota; OLIVEIRA, Lea Campos de; GOMES, Paulo; NUNES, Maria do Carmo Pereira; SABINO, Ester Cerdeira; RIBEIRO, Antonio Luiz Pinho
    Chagas cardiomyopathy is the most harmful complication of Chagas disease. The electrocardiogram is a well studied exam and has been considered an important tool for detection and evaluation of Chagas cardiomyopathy since the first years of its description. Many of its abnormalities have been described as associated with a worse prognosis. Serum BNP levels were described as inversely related to the left ventricular ejection fraction and as an independent predictor of death. It was not reported how electrocardiographic alterations correlate to NT-proBNP and its analog. The present study aims to describe the baseline electrocardiograms of a large cohort of patients with Chagas disease from endemic area and to establish an association between the number of electrocardiogram alterations and high levels of NT-ProBNP in Chagas disease patients. This study selected 1959 Chagas disease patients in 21 municipalities within a limited region in the northern part of the State of Minas Gerais (Brazil), 1084 of them had Chagas cardiomyopathy. NT-proBNP levels were suggestive of heart failure in 11.7% of this population. One or more electrocardiographic alterations have an Odds Ratio of 9.12 (CI 95% 5.62-14.80) to have NT-proBNP elevation. Considering the association between the number of 1, 2, and 3 or more alterations in electrocardiogram and NT-proBNP elevation, the ORs were 7.11 (CI 95% 4.33-11.67); 16.04 (CI 95% 9.27-27.77) and 47.82 (CI 95% 17.98-127.20), respectively. The presence and the number of typical electrocardiographic alterations of Chagas disease are independently associated with the severity of the cardiomyopathy. (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier Inc.
  • article 42 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    TGFB1 and IL8 gene polymorphisms and susceptibility to visceral leishmaniasis
    (2011) FRADE, Amanda Farage; OLIVEIRA, Lea Campos de; COSTA, Dorcas Lamounier; COSTA, Carlos Henrique Nery; AQUINO, Dorlene; WEYENBERGH, Johan Van; BARRAL-NETTO, Manoel; BARRAL, Aldina; KALIL, Jorge; GOLDBERG, Anna Carla
    Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) or Kala-azar is a serious protozoan infectious disease caused by an obligate intracellular parasite. Cytokines have a major role in determining progression and severity of clinical manifestations in VL. We investigated polymorphisms in the TGFB1 and IL8 genes, which are cytokines known to have a role in onset and severity of the disease. Polymorphisms at TGFB1 -509 C/T and +869 T/C, and IL8 -251 A/T were analyzed by a PCR-RFLP technique, in 198 patients with VL, 98 individuals with asymptomatic infection positive for a delayed-type hypersensitivity test (DTH+) and in 101 individuals with no evidence of infection (DTH-). The presence of the T allele in position -509 of the TGFB1 gene conferred a two-fold risk to develop infection both when including those with clinical symptoms (DTH+ and VL, grouped) or when considering DTH+ only, respectively p = 0.007, OR = 1.9 [1.19-3.02] and p = 0.012, OR = 2.01 [1.17-3.79], when compared with DTH- individuals. In addition, occurrence of hemorrhage was associated with TGFB1 -509 T allele. We suggest that the -509 T allele of the TGFB1 gene, a cytokine with a biologically relevant role in the natural history of the disease, may contribute to overall susceptibility to infection by Leishmania and to severity of the clinical disease.
  • article 1 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    ELISA Saliva for Trypanosoma cruzi Antibody Detection: An Alternative for Serological Surveys in Endemic Regions
    (2020) OLIVEIRA, Lea Campos de; PEREIRA, Natalia Bueno; MOREIRA, Carlos Henrique Valente; BIERRENBACH, Ana Luiza; SALLES, Flavia Cristina; SOUZA-BASQUEIRA, Marcela de; MANULI, Erika Regina; FERREIRA, Ariela Mota; OLIVEIRA, Claudia Di Lorenzo; CARDOSO, Clareci Silva; RIBEIRO, Antonio Luiz P.; SABINO, Ester Cerdeira
    Chagas is a neglected disease endemic in Latin America. Vector transmission control had been aggressively performed. Recent entomological surveillance in Brazil has revealed natural infection rates ranging from 0.40% to 0.52%. Although serological surveys are complex to develop, they are important for disease control. In this study, we validated the use of saliva in ELISA commercial kits with a cohort of 100 patients with Chagas disease followed at Hospital das Clinicas in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and 50 healthy controls. Five ELISA kits for detecting antibodies against Trypanosome cruzi were tested. The best discrimination between Chagas patients and controls was observed with the Wiener kit, which yielded a sensitivity of 97% and a specificity of 100%. Our findings reveal that the use of saliva may be an alternative to large-scale screening surveys in detecting T. cruzi antibodies; it is a noninvasive sample collection method potentially key to large-scale screening in children.
  • article 10 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    A refined genome phage display methodology delineates the human antibody response in patients with Chagas disease
    (2021) TEIXEIRA, Andre Azevedo Reis; CARNERO, Luis Rodriguez; KURAMOTO, Andreia; TANG, Fenny Hui Fen; GOMES, Carlos Hernique; PEREIRA, Natalia Bueno; OLIVEIRA, Lea Campos de; GARRINI, Regina; MONTEIRO, Jhonatas Sirino; SETUBAL, Joao Carlos; SABINO, Ester Cerdeira; PASQUALINI, Renata; COLLI, Walter; ARAP, Wadih; ALVES, Maria Julia Manso; CUNHA-NETO, Edecio; GIORDANO, Ricardo Jose
    Large-scale mapping of antigens and epitopes is pivotal for developing immunotherapies but challenging, especially for eukaryotic pathogens, owing to their large genomes. Here, we developed an integrated platform for genome phage display (gPhage) to show that unbiased libraries of the eukaryotic parasite Trypanosoma cruzi enable the identification of thousands of antigens recognized by serum samples from patients with Chagas disease. Because most of these antigens are hypothetical proteins, gPhage provides evidence of their expression during infection. We built and validated a comprehensive map of Chagas disease antibody response to show howlinear and putative conformation epitopes, many rich in repetitive elements, allow the parasite to evade a buildup of neutralizing antibodies directed against protein domains that mediate infection pathogenesis. Thus, the gPhage platform is a reproducible and effective tool for rapid simultaneous identification of epitopes and antigens, not only in Chagas disease but perhaps also in globally emerging/reemerging acute pathogens.
  • article 1 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    Prevalence and factors associated with impaired left ventricular global longitudinal strain in patients with Chagas disease: SaMi-Trop cohort study
    (2022) SANTOS JUNIOR, Omar Ribeiro; SABINO, Ester Cerdeira; CARVALHO, Vinicius Tostes; BRITO, Bruno Oliveira de Figueiredo; OLIVEIRA, Lea Campos de; FERREIRA, Ariela Mota; MAIA, Marcelo Alves; GOMES, Nayana Flamini Arantes; RIBEIRO, Antonio Luiz P.; NUNES, Maria Carmo P.
    Cardiomyopathy is a major cause of death in Chagas disease and early detection of cardiac involvement is essential. Myocardial strain is a reliable technique for assessment of subtle left ventricular (LV) contractility alterations. This study assessed LV global longitudinal strain (GLS) in a large Chagas disease population living in remote areas. Between 2015 and 2016, Chagas disease patients were selected in the northern of the Minas Gerais state. All patients underwent T. cruzi antibodies tests and those who had positive tests were included. A resting 12-lead ECG was recorded and classified using the Minnesota Code criteria. Echocardiography was performed at public health primary care units and speckle-tracking strain was analyzed offline. LV dysfunction was defined as ejection fraction (LVEF < 50%) and reduced GLS was defined as < 16% (absolute value). A total of 1387 patients were included, mean age of 60.0 +/- 12.5 years, 68% were women, and 14% had LV dysfunction. Among patients with normal LVEF, 59% had impaired LV GLS. Overall, patients with impaired GLS were older, had more comorbidities and ECG abnormalities than those with normal GLS. The independent factors associated with reduced GLS were ST-T abnormalities (OR 1.954; 95% CI 1.027-3.718), QRS duration (OR 1.009; 95% CI 1.002-1.016), LVEF (OR 0.947; 95% CI 0.923-0.972), and E/e' ratio (OR 1.059; 95% CI 1.009-1.112). In a cohort of Chagas disease from endemic areas, impaired LV GLS was detected in a significant proportion of patients, despite normal ECG and preserved LVEF. The main determinants of reduced LV GLS were ST-T abnormalities, QRS duration, LVEF and E/e' ratio, adjusting for demographical and clinical data.
  • article 7 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    An alternative storage method for characterization of the intestinal microbiota through next generation sequencing
    (2018) RIBEIRO, Roberto Marques; SOUZA-BASQUEIRA, Marcela de; OLIVEIRA, Lea Campos de; SALLES, Flavia Cristina; PEREIRA, Natalia Bueno; SABINO, Ester Cerdeira
    Gut microbiota has been the subject of various molecular studies mainly due to its importance and wide-ranging relationships with human hosts. However, the storage of fecal samples prior to DNA extraction is critical when characterizing the composition of intestinal microbiota. Therefore, we aimed to understand the effects of different fecal storage methods to characterize intestinal microbiota using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) as well as to establish an alternative conservation method of bacterial genetic material in these samples using guanidine. Stool samples from 10 healthy volunteers were collected. Each sample was divided into five aliquots: one aliquot was extracted immediately after collection (fresh) and two aliquots were subjected to freezing at -20 degrees C or -80 degrees C and extracted after 48 h. The other two aliquots were stored in guanidine at room temperature or 4 degrees C and extracted after 48 h. The V4 hypervariable regions of the bacterial and archeal 16S rRNA gene were amplified by PCR and sequenced using an Ion Torrent PGM platform for NGS. The data were analyzed using QIIME software. Statistical significance was determined using a non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis test. A total of 11,494,688 reads with acceptable quality were obtained. Unweighted principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) revealed that the samples were clustered based on the host rather than by the storage group. At the phylum and genus levels, we observed statistically significant differences between two genera, Proteobacteria (p=0.013) and Suterella (p=0.004), comparing frozen samples with guanidine-stored samples. Our data suggest that the use of guanidine can preserve bacterial genetic materials as well as freezing, providing additional conveniences.