1H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Metabolomics of Plasma Unveils Liver Dysfunction in Dengue Patients.

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Dengue, due to its global burden, is the most important arthropod-borne flavivirus disease, and early detection lowers fatality rates to below 1%. Since the metabolic resources crucial for viral replication are provided by host cells, detection of changes in the metabolic profile associated with disease pathogenesis could help with the identification of markers of prognostic and diagnostic importance. We applied (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance exploratory metabolomics to study longitudinal changes in plasma metabolites in a cohort in Recife, Brazil. To gain statistical power, we used innovative paired multivariate analyses to discriminate individuals with primary and secondary infection presenting as dengue fever (DF; mild) and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF; severe) and

SUBMITTER: El-Bacha T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4984634 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature