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Patrícia Puccinelli Orlandi

Assistant Professor
Brazil.

Title: Virulence factors associated with pediatric shigellosis in Brazilian Amazon

Biography

Biography: Patrícia Puccinelli Orlandi

Abstract

Shigellosis is a global human health problem and the incidence is highest among children. In present work, main Shigella virulence genes was examined by PCR and compared to symptoms of pediatric shigellosis. Thirty Shigella isolates were identified from an etiologic study at which 1,339 children ranging 0-10 years old were enrolled. S. flexneri was the most frequent species reaching 60.0% of isolates, 22.2% were S. sonnei, and 6.6% were both S. dysenteriae and S. boydii. All Shigella infected children had diarrhea but not all were accompanied by others symptoms of bacillary dysentery. Among major virulence genes, the PCR typing revealed ipaBCD was present in all isolates, followed by IpaH7.8, set-1A, set-1B, sen/ospD3, virF and invE. The pathogenic potential of the ShET-1B subunit was observed in relation to dehydration (p<0.001) and ShET-2 related to the intestinal injury (p=0.033) evidenced by the presence of bloody diarrhea. Our results show associations among symptoms of shigellosis and virulence genes of clinical isolates of Shigella spp.