Monitoring the parasite load in chronic Chagas disease patients: comparison between blood culture and quantitative real time PCR.

Daniella Alchaar D'ÁvilaLúcia Maria C GalvãoGiovane R SousaConstança BrittoOtacílio da Cruz MoreiraEgler Chiari

Published in: PloS one (2018)

Our data suggest that qPCR can be an auxiliary tool for studies that require T. cruzi isolation from the bloodstream of patients with chronic Chagas disease, after the establishment of a parasite load cut-off that guarantees a relative success rate of parasite isolation using BC technique.

Keyphrases

plasmodium falciparum
toxoplasma gondii
real time pcr
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
life cycle
high resolution
peritoneal dialysis
big data
patient reported outcomes
mass spectrometry
artificial intelligence
case control
deep learning