Abstract：
:According to the World Health Organization, lymphatic filariasis (LF), a mosquito-borne neglected tropical disease (NTD), should be eliminated as a public health concern by the end of 2020. To this end, the goals of the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) include interrupting transmission through mass drug administration (MDA). After two decades, several countries have implemented MDA and are now ready to confirm whether transmission has been interrupted. The method for detecting the parasites in mosquito vectors known as xenomonitoring is a non-invasive tool for assessing the current transmission status of the filarial nematode Wuchereria bancrofti (which is responsible for 90% of cases) by their vectors. There are several methods available for detection of the worm in mosquito samples, such as dissection or polymerase chain reaction (PCR). However, most of these techniques still produce a considerable number of false-negative results. The present study describes a new duplex PCR protocol, which is an improvement on the traditional PCR methodology, enhanced by introducing the actin gene as an endogenous control gene. After adjusting the mosquito pool size, DNA extraction, and WbCx PCR duplex design, we achieved a reliable and sensitive molecular xenomonitoring protocol. This assay was able to eliminate 5% of false negative samples and detected less than one Wb larvae. This high sensitivity is particularly valuable after MDA, when prevalence declines. This new method could reduce the number of false-negative samples, which will enable us to improve our ability to generate accurate results and aid the monitoring strategies used by LF elimination programmes.
journal_name
Exp Parasitoljournal_title
Experimental parasitologyauthors
Albuquerque AL,Araújo TA,Melo DCTV,Paiva MHS,Melo FL,Oliveira CMF,Ayres CFJdoi
10.1016/j.exppara.2020.107918subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-08-01 00:00:00pages
107918eissn
0014-4894issn
1090-2449pii
S0014-4894(19)30465-5journal_volume
215pub_type
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