Association between Trypanosoma cruzi DTU TcII and chronic Chagas disease clinical presentation and outcome in an urban cohort in Brazil

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Nielebock Marco Antonio Prates,Moreira Otacílio C.,Xavier Samanta Cristina das Chagas,Miranda Luciana de Freitas Campos,Lima Ana Carolina Bastos deORCID,Pereira Thayanne Oliveira de Jesus Sales,Hasslocher-Moreno Alejandro MarcelORCID,Britto Constança,Sangenis Luiz Henrique Conde,Saraiva Roberto MagalhãesORCID

Abstract

Background The specific roles of parasite characteristics and immunological factors of the host in Chagas disease progression and prognosis are still under debate. Trypanosoma cruzi genotype may be an important determinant of the clinical chronic Chagas disease form and prognosis. This study aimed to identify the potential association between T. cruzi genotypes and the clinical presentations of chronic Chagas disease. Methodology/principal findings This is a retrospective study using T. cruzi isolated from blood culture samples of 43 patients with chronic Chagas disease. From 43 patients, 42 were born in Brazil, mainly in Southeast and Northeast Brazilian regions, and one patient was born in Bolivia. Their mean age at the time of blood collection was 52.4±13.2 years. The clinical presentation was as follows 51.1% cardiac form, 25.6% indeterminate form, and 23.3% cardiodigestive form. Discrete typing unit (DTU) was determined by multilocus conventional PCR. TcII (n = 40) and TcVI (n = 2) were the DTUs identified. DTU was unidentifiable in one patient. The average follow-up time after blood culture was 5.7±4.4 years. A total of 14 patients (32.5%) died and one patient underwent heart transplantation. The cause of death was sudden cardiac arrest in six patients, heart failure in five patients, not related to Chagas disease in one patient, and ignored in two patients. A total of 8 patients (18.6%) progressed, all of them within the cardiac or cardiodigestive forms. Conclusions/significance TcII was the main T. cruzi DTU identified in chronic Chagas disease Brazilian patients (92.9%) with either cardiac, indeterminate or cardiodigestive forms, born at Southeast and Northeast regions. Other DTU found in much less frequency was TcVI (4.8%). TcII was also associated to patients that evolved with heart failure or sudden cardiac arrest, the two most common and ominous consequences of the cardiac form of Chagas disease.

Funder

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior

Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Publisher

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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