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ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2016

Soluble Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Receptor 2 in Urine Is a Potential Biomarker for Noninvasive Diagnosis of Malaria During Pregnancy.

Samuel Tassi Yunga, Audrey Davidson Thévenon, Rose Gana Fomban Leke, Diane Wallace Taylor

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Article in Open forum infectious diseases, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Samuel Tassi YungaDepartment of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu; The Biotechnology Center, University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon.
Audrey Davidson ThévenonDepartment of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology , John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa , Honolulu.
Rose Gana Fomban LekeThe Biotechnology Center, University of Yaoundé 1 , Cameroon.
Diane Wallace TaylorDepartment of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology , John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa , Honolulu.
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · USUniversité de Yaoundé I · CM

Funding

Malarial Immunity in Pregnant Cameroonian WomenR01AI071160 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA · PI TAYLOR, DIANE WALLACE · 2007 to 2011
$3.0M
TH2 BIAS EFFECT ON MALARIAL IMMUNITY IN CAMEROONU01AI043888 · NIAID · GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY · PI TAYLOR, DIANE WALLACE · 1998 to 2002
$2.7M
Training of Cameroonian Scientists in Research on MalariaD43TW009074 · FIC · UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA · PI NERURKAR, VIVEK RAMCHANDRA · 2011 to 2015
$978k
FIC NIH HHS D43 TW009074NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI071160NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI043888
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background.  During pregnancy, the placenta is inaccessible for diagnosis of placental malaria (PM), but soluble tumor necrosis factor-α receptors (sTNFR) are elevated in the plasma of women with PM. Methods.  In this study, sTNFR-1 and sTNFR-2 were quantified in urine of pregnant and nonpregnant Cameroonian women who were positive or negative for malaria by blood-smear microscopy. Results.  We found that levels of both sTNFR in urine were higher in pregnant compared with nonpregnant women, but malaria-positive pregnant women excreted substantially more sTNFR-1 (P = .005) and sTNFR-2 (P < .001) than malaria-negative pregnant women. The amount of sTNFR-1(rs = 0.784, P < .001) and sTNFR-2 (rs = 0.816, P < .001) in urine correlated with parasitemia, even in afebrile pregnant women. Urine sTNFR-2 predicted maternal malaria with an area under curve of 0.892 (95% confidence interval, .787-.898). At cutoff concentrations of 9.8 ng and 13.6 ng of sTNFR-2 per mL urine, the sensitivity/specificity were 82.6%/87.0% and 78.3%/95.7%, respectively. Conclusions.  The sTNFR-2 in noninvasive urine samples may be useful for diagnosis of malaria during pregnancy.

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biomarkermalariapregnancyTNF-α receptorsurine

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PMCPMC4943558
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