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Journal Article
Metabolomics analyses identify platelet activating factors and heme breakdown products as Lassa fever biomarkers
2017
Overview
Lassa fever afflicts tens of thousands of people in West Africa annually. The rapid progression of patients from febrile illness to fulminant syndrome and death provides incentive for development of clinical prognostic markers that can guide case management. The small molecule profile of serum from febrile patients triaged to the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Ward at Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone was assessed using untargeted Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry. Physiological dysregulation resulting from Lassa virus (LASV) infection occurs at the small molecule level. Effects of LASV infection on pathways mediating blood coagulation, and lipid, amino acid, nucleic acid metabolism are manifest in changes in the levels of numerous metabolites in the circulation. Several compounds, including platelet activating factor (PAF), PAF-like molecules and products of heme breakdown emerged as candidates that may prove useful in diagnostic assays to inform better care of Lassa fever patients.
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
/ Adult
/ Africa, Western - epidemiology
/ Antigens
/ Blood
/ Female
/ Fever
/ Grants
/ Heme
/ High performance liquid chromatography
/ HPLC
/ Humans
/ Identification and classification
/ Lassa virus - isolation & purification
/ Lipids
/ Male
/ Medicine and Health Sciences
/ Methods
/ Patients
/ Platelet Activating Factor - analysis
/ Platelet Activating Factor - metabolism
/ Research and Analysis Methods
/ Serum
/ Viruses
