ArticleThe Journal of infectious diseases2025
Single-Cell Targeted Transcriptomics Reveals Subset-Specific Immune Signatures Differentiating Asymptomatic and Cardiac Patients With Chronic Chagas Disease.
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- Decoding Leukocyte Dynamics: Functional Biomarkers and Precision Diagnostics in Parasitic Infections.Acta parasitologica · 2026Review
- Natural killer (NK) cells with downregulated activating receptors and IL-10 production promote Trypanosoma cruzi T-cell responses in subjects in the Chronic phase of Trypanosoma cruzi infection: An exploratory immunological analysis.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
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- Mitochondrial Collapse Responsible for Chagasic and Post-Ischemic Heart Failure Is Reversed by Cell Therapy Under Different Transcriptomic Topologies.Current issues in molecular biology · 2025Article
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backgroundHuman infection with Trypanosoma cruzi leads to Chagas disease, which induces profound changes in the immune response across different cell subsets, influencing parasite control and disease pathology. Dissecting the functional characteristics of distinct immune cells in patients with the asymptomatic (indeterminate, IND) or the cardiac (CCC) clinical forms is crucial for unveiling mechanisms of disease progression and pathology, and identifying disease markers.
methodsImmune-gene targeted single-cell RNA sequencing was applied to peripheral blood mononuclear cells obtained from patients with IND and CCC to unravel the immune landscape in these polar, well-characterized, clinical groups.
resultsOur findings revealed different myeloid and lymphoid cell clusters in the cohorts, each exhibiting unique gene expression patterns. CCC was characterized by an increased frequency of KLRB1+CD4+, TBX21+CD8+ T cells, and NK cells, which exhibited upregulation of genes associated with cytotoxic and apoptotic responses. Furthermore, we observed monocyte, B-cell subsets, along with dendritic cells, expressing inflammatory and notably cytotoxic genes.
conclusionsThese results reveal cell-specific changes in patients with CCC compared to IND chronic Chagas disease, highlighted by distinct gene expression patterns. These nuanced changes indicate an immune signature linked to the clinical forms of chronic Chagas disease, which provide information regarding disease pathology, indicating potential markers related to the disease progression.
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