Unexpected detection of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum DNA in asymptomatic blood donors: Fact or artifact?

Malaria Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Mendrone, Alfredo ^a   Cerutti, Crispim ^b   Levi, José Eduardo ^a,c   Boulos, Marcos ^c   Sanchez, Maria Carmen Arroyo ^c   Malafronte, Rosely Dos Santos ^c   Santi, Silvia Maria Di ^c,d   Odone, Vicente ^a  

^a FUNDAÇÃO PRÓ SANGUE HEMOCENTRO DE SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d Secretaria de Estado da Saude de Sao Paulo   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANOPHELES; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAZIL; DNA DETERMINATION; FOREST; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; REVIEW; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX;

ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 84928767558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-336     Document Type: Review

References (22)

1. Maselli LM, Levy D, Laporta GZ, Monteiro AM, Fukuya LA, Ferreira-da-Cruz MF, Daniel-Ribeiro CT, Dorlhiac-Llacer PE, Sallum MA, Bydlowski SP: Detection of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax subclinical infection in non-endemic region: implications for blood transfusion and malaria epidemiology. Malar J 2014, 13:224.
2. Pinotti M: The biological basis for the campaign against the malaria vectors of Brazil. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1951, 44:663-682.
3. Guimarães AE, Gentile C, Lopes CM, Mello RP: Ecology of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in areas of Serra do Mar State Park, State of São Paulo, Brazil. II-Habitat distribution. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 2000, 95:753-760.
4. Deane LM, Neto JAF, Okumura M, Ferreira MO: Malaria parasites of Brazilian monkeys. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 1969, 11:71-86.
5. Deane LM: Simian Malaria in Brazil. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 1992, 87:1-20.
6. Yamasaki T, Duarte AMRC, Curado I, Summa MEL, Do Valle DDAN, Wunderlich G, Malafronte RS: Detection of etiological agents of malaria in howler monkeys from Atlantic Forests, rescued in regions of São Paulo city, Brazil. J Med Primatol 2011, 40:392-400.
7. Duarte AMRC, Pereira DM, De Paula MB, Fernandes A, Urbinatti PR, Ribeiro AF, Mello MHSH, Matos MO Jr, Mucci LF, Fernandes LN, Natal D, Malafronte RS: Natural infection in anopheline species and its implications for autochthonous malaria in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. Parasit Vectors 2013, 6:58.
8. Neves A, Urbinatti PR, Malafronte RS, Fernandes A, Paganini WS, Natal D: Malaria outside the Amazon region: natural Plasmodium infection in anophelines collected near an indigenous village in the Vale do Rio Branco, Itanhaém, SP, Brazil. Acta Trop 2013, 125:102-106.
9. Rezende HR, Soares RM, Cerutti C Jr, Alves IC, Natal D, Urbinatti PR, Yamasaki T, Falqueto A, Malafronte RS: Entomological characterization and natural infection of anophelines in an area of the Atlantic forest with autochthonous malaria cases in mountainous region of Espírito Santo State, Brazil. Neotrop Entomol 2009, 38:272-280.
10. Cerutti C Jr, Boulos M, Coutinho AF, Hatab MCLD, Falqueto A, Rezende HR, Duarte MRC, Collins W, Malafronte RS: Epidemiologic aspects of the malaria transmission cycle in an area of very low incidence in Brazil. Malar J 2007, 6:33.
11. Duarte MRC, Malafronte RS, Cerutti C Jr, Curado I, Paiva BR, Maeda AY, Yamasaki T, Summa MEL, Neves DVDA, Oliveira SG, Gomes AC: Natural Plasmodium infections in Brazilian wild monkeys: Reservoirs for human infections? Acta Trop 2009, 107:179-185.
12. Fugikaha E, Fornazari PA, Penhalbel RSR, Lorenzetti A, Maroso RD, Amoras JT, Saraiva AS, Silva RU, Bonini-Domingos CR, Mattos LC, Rossit ARB, Cavasini CE, Machado RLD: Molecular screening of Plasmodium sp. asymptomatic carriers among transfusion centers from Brazilian Amazon region. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 2007, 49:1-4.
13. Batista-dos-Santos S, Raiol M, Santos S, Cunha MG, Ribeiro-dos-Santos A: Real-Time PCR diagnosis of Plasmodium vivax among blood donors. Malar J 2012, 11:345.
14. Kirchgatter K, Nogueira SL, Padilha A, Curado I, Boulos M, Di Santi SM: Lethal malaria caused by Plasmodium malariae in an asplenic patient in Brazil. BMJ 2005, 331:576.
15. Di Santi SM, Carvalho ME, Costa MJ, Kirchgatter K, Pereira BF, Toniolo C: Malária transfusional causada por Plasmodium malariae transmitido por doador assintomático infectado na Mata Atlântica do Estado de São Paulo. Rev Soc Brasil Med Trop 2005, 38:333.
16. Scuracchio P, Vieira SD, Dourado DA, Bueno LM, Colella R, Ramos-Sanchez EM, Lima GC, Inoue J, Sanchez MCA, Di Santi SM: Transfusion transmitted malaria: case report of asymptomatic donor harboring Plasmodium malariae. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 2011, 53:55-59.
17. Gama BE, Silva-Pires FES, Lopes MNR, Cardoso MAB, Britto C, Torres KL, Lima LM, De Souza JM, Daniel-Ribeiro CT, Ferreira-da-Cruz MF: Real-Time PCR versus conventional PCR for malaria parasite detection in low-grade parasitemia. Exp Parasitol 2007, 116:427-432.
18. Perandin F, Manca N, Calderaro A, Piccolo G, Galati L, Ricci L, Medici MC, Arcangeletti MC, Snounou G, Dettori G, Chezzi C: Development of a real-Time PCR assay for detection of Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, and Plasmodium ovale for routine clinical diagnosis. J Clin Microbiol 2004, 42:1214-1219.
19. Arroyo Sanchez MC, Lima GFMC, Inoue J, Carvalho ME, Nascimento L, Sanchez AR, Toniolo C, Costa-Nascimento MJ, Di Santi SM: Asymptomatic infections in blood donors harboring Plasmodium detected by molecular and serological tools. Trop Med Int Health 2011, 16:Suppl. I. abstract 1.1-157, pg.145.
20. Lima GFMC, Levi JE, Geraldi MP, Sanchez MCA, Segurado AAC, Hristov AD, Inoue J, Costa-Nascimento MJ, Di Santi SM: Malaria diagnosis from pooled blood samples: comparative analysis of real-Time PCR, nested PCR and immunoassay as a platform for the molecular and serological diagnosis of malaria on a large-scale. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 2011, 106:691-700.
21. Validação da triagem clínica para malária em candidatos à doação de sangue (região não-endêmica): University of São Paulo: Aline Maria Monteiro PhD thesis; 2013. www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5167/tde-24032014-111125/pt-br.php.
22. Achidi EA, Perlmann H, Berzins K: Asymptomatic malaria parasitaemia and seroreactivities to Plasmodium falciparum antigens in blood donors from Ibadan, south-western Nigeria. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 1995, 89:601-610.