Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/31681
DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A NOVEL HIGH-THROUGHPUT IMAGE-BASED FLUORESCENT NEUTRALIZATION TEST FOR DETECTION OF ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION
Author
Affilliation
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Carlos Chagas. Laboratório de Virologia Molecular. Curitiba, PR, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Carlos Chagas. Laboratório de Virologia Molecular. Curitiba, PR, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Carlos Chagas. Laboratório de Virologia Molecular. Curitiba, PR, Brasil.
Universidad de Carabobo. Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas. Laboratório Regional de Diagnostico e Investigación del Dengue y otras Enfermedades Virales. Maracay, Venezuela.
Universidad de Carabobo. Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas. Laboratório Regional de Diagnostico e Investigación del Dengue y otras Enfermedades Virales. Maracay, Venezuela.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Carlos Chagas. Laboratório de Virologia Molecular. Curitiba, PR, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Carlos Chagas. Laboratório de Virologia Molecular. Curitiba, PR, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Carlos Chagas. Laboratório de Virologia Molecular. Curitiba, PR, Brasil.
Universidad de Carabobo. Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas. Laboratório Regional de Diagnostico e Investigación del Dengue y otras Enfermedades Virales. Maracay, Venezuela.
Universidad de Carabobo. Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas. Laboratório Regional de Diagnostico e Investigación del Dengue y otras Enfermedades Virales. Maracay, Venezuela.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Carlos Chagas. Laboratório de Virologia Molecular. Curitiba, PR, Brasil.
Abstract
Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging arbovirus belonging to the genus flavivirus that comprises other important public health viruses, such as dengue (DENV) and yellow fever (YFV). In general, ZIKV infection is a self-limiting disease, however cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome and congenital brain abnormalities in newborn infants have been reported. Diagnosing ZIKV infection remains a challenge, as viral RNA detection is only applicable until a few days after the onset of symptoms. After that, serological tests must be applied, and, as expected, high cross-reactivity between ZIKV and other flavivirus serology is observed. Plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT) is indicated to confirm positive samples for being more specific, however it is laborious intensive and time consuming, representing a major bottleneck for patient diagnosis. To overcome this limitation, we developed a high-throughput image-based fluorescent neutralization test for ZIKV infection by serological detection. Using 226 human specimens, we showed that the new test presented higher throughput than traditional PRNT, maintaining the correlation between results. Furthermore, when tested with dengue virus samples, it showed 50.53% less cross reactivity than MAC-ELISA. This fluorescent neutralization test could be used for clinical diagnosis confirmation of ZIKV infection, as well as for vaccine clinical trials and seroprevalence studies.
Share