ATR-FTIR spectroscopy in blood plasma combined with multivariate analysis to detect HIV infection in pregnant women

Silva, Lidiane G., Péres, Ana F. S., Freitas, Daniel L. D., Medeiros-De-morais, Camilo orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2573-787X, Martin, Francis L, Crispim, Janaina C. O. and Lima, Kassio M. G. (2020) ATR-FTIR spectroscopy in blood plasma combined with multivariate analysis to detect HIV infection in pregnant women. Scientific Reports, 10 (1). p. 20156.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77378-3

Abstract

Abstract: The primary concern for HIV-infected pregnant women is the vertical transmission that can occur during pregnancy, in the intrauterine period, during labour or even breastfeeding. The risk of vertical transmission can be reduced by early diagnosis. Therefore, it is necessary to develop new methods to detect this virus in a quick and low-cost fashion, as colorimetric assays for HIV detection tend to be laborious and costly. Herein, attenuated total reflection Fourier-transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy combined with multivariate analysis was employed to distinguish HIV-infected patients from healthy uninfected controls in a total of 120 blood plasma samples. The best sensitivity (83%) and specificity (92%) values were obtained using the genetic algorithm with linear discriminant analysis (GA-LDA). These good classification results in addition to the potential for high analytical frequency, the low cost and reagent-free nature of this method demonstrate its potential as an alternative tool for HIV screening during pregnancy.


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