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| Author(s): |
Samuel Ricardo dos Santos
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Agrícola |
| Defense date: | 2014-06-16 |
| Examining board members: |
José Euclides Stipp Paterniani;
Marlene Benchimol;
Luiz Antonio Daniel;
Cassiana Maria Reganhan Coneglian;
Denis Miguel Roston
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| Advisor: | José Euclides Stipp Paterniani; Cristiano de Mello Gallep |
| Abstract | |
Giardia spp. and Cryptosporidium spp. are challenging and important organisms in modern environmental monitoring. These protozoa can affect humans and animals seriously, as reflection of sanitation problems in water quality control, with huge impact over economics and public health. Methods to detect such organisms are well described in literature - i.e. the EPA Method 1623.1 and AWWA 2012. But those ones are not able to detect infectivity. For that, the usual procedures include infection of animal model leading to at least one week for confirming infectivity. Some research with dye probes are being developed in order to provide useful, reliable and low cost procedures for detection of protozoa viability, i.e. enabling to distinguish dead samples cells from living ones. This work describes the screening tests for viability detection of protozoa samples - Giardia intestinalis and Cryptosporidium parvum - using carboxifluorcein-succinimidyl-diacetate-ester (CFDA-SE), C12-resazurin and SYTOX Green. Living, heat-killed and UV-C stressed (oo)cysts were analyzed using these chemical probes. G. intestinalis in concentrated samples and stained with CFDA-SE were analysed by fluorescence imaging as well as by delayed fluorescence (DF) after UV-A and white-light excitation. The weak DF profiles were detected in photon-counting setups, in 8 series of tests for intact, for heat-killed and for UV-C-stressed samples are shown. Results show that fresh, i.e. living and viable (oo)cysts cannot be stained by the mentioned neither with CFDA-SE nor C12-resazurin and SYTOX Green dyes. Double-marked (oo)cysts are observed when C12-resazurin and SYTOX Green are applied to old cysts as well to dead ones. Aged samples show increasing number of stained organisms: 30-day-old with ~50% while samples older than 50 days with almost 100% marked. Intact samples present stronger fluorescence and DF than the stressed ones, with good replication after UV-A excitation. After excitation @365nm samples present DF better fitted by double exponential decay kinetics, with the decay constant k2 five times higher than the k1 constant. The procedure can be easily reproduced in 10 steps, taking around 1h of laboratorial work with purified samples (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/07792-1 - ULTRAWEAK LIGHT EMISSION DETECTION IN Giardia spp |
| Grantee: | Samuel Ricardo dos Santos |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |