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PLoS One ; 19(6): e0300704, 2024.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38865430

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Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae. The disease may evolve for inflammatory reactions, reversal reaction (RR) and erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL), the major cause of irreversible neuropathy in leprosy, which occur in 1 in 3 people with leprosy, even with effective treatment of M. leprae. Leprosy remains persistently endemic in our region where it predominantly affects lowest socioeconomic conditions people, as Toxoplasma gondii infection in the municipality studied. Previously, we have shown T. gondii coinfection as a risk marker for leprosy, mainly in its severe form. This present study assessed whether T. gondii infection is also a risk factor for leprosy reactions and the predictive value of immunoglobulin production prior to development of leprosy reactions. Patients with leprosy (n = 180), co-infected or not with T. gondii, had their serum investigated for levels of IgA, IgE, IgG1, IgG2, IgG3 and IgG4 anti-PGL-1 by ELISA prior to development of leprosy reactions. The serologic prevalence for T. gondii infection was 87.7% in leprosy reaction patients reaching 90.9% in those with ENL. The leprosy reaction risk increased in T. gondii seropositive individuals was two-fold ([OR] = 2.366; 95% confidence interval [CI 95%]: 1.024-5.469) higher than those seronegative, and considering the risk of ENL, this increase was even more evident (OR = 6.753; 95% CI: 1.050-72.85) in coinfected individuals. When evaluated the prediction of anti-PGL-1 immunoglobulin levels for development of leprosy reactions in patients coinfected or not with T. gondii, only the increase IgE levels were associated to occurrence of reactional episodes of leprosy, specifically ENL type, in patients coinfected with T. gondii, compared to those not coinfected or no reaction. Thus, the immunomodulation in co-parasitism T. gondii-M. leprae suggest increased levels of IgE as a biomarker for early detection of these acute inflammatory episodes and thereby help prevent permanent neuropathy and disability in leprosy patients.


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Eritema Nodoso , Imunoglobulina E , Toxoplasma , Toxoplasmose , Humanos , Toxoplasmose/sangue , Toxoplasmose/complicações , Toxoplasmose/imunologia , Toxoplasmose/epidemiologia , Eritema Nodoso/imunologia , Eritema Nodoso/epidemiologia , Eritema Nodoso/sangue , Feminino , Masculino , Adulto , Imunoglobulina E/sangue , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Toxoplasma/imunologia , Coinfecção/imunologia , Coinfecção/parasitologia , Mycobacterium leprae/imunologia , Adulto Jovem , Adolescente , Fatores de Risco , Idoso , Hanseníase Virchowiana/imunologia , Hanseníase Virchowiana/complicações , Hanseníase Virchowiana/sangue , Hanseníase Virchowiana/epidemiologia
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