Deep Sequencing Reveals Occult Mansonellosis Coinfections in Residents From the Brazilian Amazon Village of São Gabriel da Cachoeira
James Lee Crainey, Carlos H. Ã. Costa, Lorena Ferreira de Oliveira Leles, Túllio Romão Ribeiro da Silva, Luiz Henrique de Aquino Narzetti, Yago Vinícius Serra dos Santos, Liliane Costa Conteville, Felipe Arley Costa Pessoa, José Joaquín Carvajal Cortés, Ana Carolina Paulo Vicente, José Miguel Rubio, Sérgio Luíz Bessa Luz
Abstract
Mansonella ozzardi and Mansonella perstans infections both cause mansonellosis but are usually treated differently. Using a real-time polymerase chain reaction assay and deep sequencing, we reveal the presence of mansonellosis coinfections that were undetectable by standard diagnostic methods. Our results confirm mansonellosis coinfections and have important implications for the disease's treatment and diagnosis.
Topics & Concepts
Amazon rainforestOccultGeographyBiologyMedicineEcologyPathologyAlternative medicineParasitic Diseases Research and TreatmentParasite Biology and Host InteractionsMosquito-borne diseases and control