Frequency of human leukocyte antigen (hla) in patients with malaria and in the general population of Humaitá county, Amazonas state, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Domingos Alves Meira²  Jordão Pellegrino Júnior¹  Jussara Marcondes-machado²  Kimiyoski Tsuji¹  Elinda Satie Matsuoka¹  Elizete Haida¹  Albert Boutros El Khoury¹ 

[1] ,UNESP School of Medicine Department of Infectious and Parasitic DiseasesBotucatu

关键词: Plasmodium falciparum malaria;    HLA frequency;    Malária;    Plasmodium falciparum;    Prevalência de HLA;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0037-86821987000300005

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

In August 1983,85 inhabitants of the municipality of Humaitá, Amazonas State, Brazil were studied to determine the prevalence of antigens to HLA-A, -B, -C and DR. Thirty-eight were sick with malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum. All subjects were examined for splenomegaly, blood parasitaemia and antibodies to malaria. They constituted three groups: 1) 25 subjects native to the Amazon region who had never had malaria; 2) 38 Amazonian subjects who had malaria in the past or currently had an infection; 3) 22 patients with malaria who had acquired the infection in the Amazon Region but came from other regions of Brazil. Blood was taken from each person, the lymphocytes were separated and typed by the test of microlymphocytotoxicity. There was a high frequency of antigens that could not be identified in the groups studied which suggests the existence of a homozygote or phenotype not identified in the population. There was a high frequency of the phenotype Ag(W24) (44.7%) in group 2 when compared with group 1 (32%) or group 3 (9%). Also the individuals in group 2 showed an elevated frequency of antigen DR(4)80%) when compared with group 1 (36.6%) or group 3 (16.6%). These observations suggest the possibility of a genetic susceptibility to malaria among Amazonian residents and indicate a necessity for more extensive studies of the frequency of HLA antigens among inhabitants of this endemic malarial zone.

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