Background. During pregnancy, the placenta is inaccessible for diagnosis of placental malaria (PM), but soluble tumor necrosis factor-α receptors (sTNFR) are elevated in the plasma of women with PM.Methods. In this study, sTNFR-1 and sTNFR-2 were quantified in urine of pregnant and nonpregnant Cameroonian women who were positive or negative for malaria by blood-smear microscopy.Results. We found that levels of both sTNFR in urine were higher in pregnant compared with nonpregnant women, but malaria-positive pregnant women excreted substantially more sTNFR-1 (P = .005) and sTNFR-2 (P < .001) than malaria-negative pregnant women. The amount of sTNFR-1(rs = 0.784, P < .001) and sTNFR-2 (rs = 0.816, P
CITATION STYLE
Tassi Yunga, S., Thévenon, A. D., Leke, R. G. F., & Taylor, D. W. (2016). Soluble tumor necrosis factor-α receptor 2 in urine is a potential biomarker for noninvasive diagnosis of malaria during pregnancy. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw084
Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work.