Post-treatment downregulation of type III interferons in patients with acute Brucellosis

Abstract There is a limited number of clinical studies on interferon (IFN) levels in human brucellosis. The novel group of interferons, type III interferons, consists of four IFN-λ (lambda) molecules called IFN-λ1 or Interleukin-29 (IL-29), IFN-λ2 or IL-28A, IFN-λ3 or IL-28B, and IFN-λ4, are not fully known. This study is one of the first studies of IL-28A and IL-29 levels in Brucellosis cases at the end of their treatment course. A total of 33 acute Brucellosis patients were included in this study. We considered changes in the levels of IL-28A and IL-29 in cases with acute brucellosis before and after treatment with standard therapy that referred to the Ayatollah Rohani Hospital in Babol, Northern Iran. Serum IL-29 and IL-28A (acute form: 56.4 ± 30.32 and 48.73 ± 27.72, respectively, and post-treatment: 40.15 ± 20.30 and 38.79 ± 22.66, respectively) levels were elevated significantly in acute brucellosis than after treatment (p ≤ 0.05). These findings indicate that considering biomarker levels in Brucellosis patients may be indicative of the chronicity of infection. In conclusion, we suggest that IL-29 and IL-28A levels may be valuable biomarkers for follow-up patients with brucellosis..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

bioRxiv.org - (2021) vom: 15. Dez. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2021

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Shokri, Mehran [VerfasserIn]
Khonakdar, Oreinab Ghaffari [VerfasserIn]
Mohammadnia-Afrouzi, Mousa [VerfasserIn]
Sadeghi-Haddad-Zavareh, Mahmoud [VerfasserIn]
Hasanpour, Amirhossein [VerfasserIn]
Barary, Mohammad [VerfasserIn]
Ebrahimpour, Soheil [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext [lizenzpflichtig]
Volltext [kostenfrei]

doi:

10.1101/2021.04.17.21255534

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

XBI020402163