Molecular and immunological analyses of confirmed Plasmodium vivax relapse episodes

Malaria Journal

Research

Srivicha Krudsood¹  Panita Gosi²  Jarinee Tongshoob³  Sarunya Maneerattanasak³  Yuvadee Mahakunkijcharoen³  Srisin Khusmith⁴  Mallika Imwong⁵  Chonlaphat Sukasem⁶  Pattamawan Chimma⁷  Georges Snounou⁸ 

[1] Clinical Malaria Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand;Department of Immunology and Medicine, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Science-United States Army Military Component, Bangkok, Thailand;Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, 420/6 Rajvithi Road, 10400, Bangkok, Thailand;Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, 420/6 Rajvithi Road, 10400, Bangkok, Thailand;Center for Emerging and Neglected Infectious Diseases, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand;Department of Molecular Tropical Medicine and Genetics, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, 10400, Bangkok, Thailand;Division of Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, 10400, Bangkok, Thailand;Laboratory for Pharmacogenomics, Somdech Phra Debaratana Medical Center (SDMC), Ramathibodi Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand;Office for Research and Development, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, 10700, Bangkok, Thailand;UPMC Univ Paris 06, Inserm (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Medicale), Centre d’Immunologie et des Maladies Infectieuses (Cimi-Paris), UMR 1135, ERL CNRS 8255 (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Sorbonne Universités, 91 Boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France;

关键词: Antibodies;    Cytokines;    Genotyping;    Relapse;    Plasmodium vivax;    Thailand;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12936-017-1877-x

 received in 2017-03-28, accepted in 2017-05-25,  发布年份 2017

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundRelapse infections resulting from the activation hypnozoites produced by Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium ovale represent an important obstacle to the successful control of these species. A single licensed drug, primaquine is available to eliminate these liver dormant forms. To date, investigations of vivax relapse infections have been few in number.ResultsGenotyping, based on polymorphic regions of two genes (Pvmsp1F3 and Pvcsp) and four microsatellite markers (MS3.27, MS3.502, MS6 and MS8), of 12 paired admission and relapse samples from P. vivax-infected patients were treated with primaquine, revealed that in eight of the parasite populations in the admission and relapse samples were homologous, and heterologous in the remaining four patients. The patients’ CYP2D6 genotypes did not suggest that any were poor metabolisers of primaquine. Parasitaemia tended to be higher in the heterologous as compared to the homologous relapse episodes as was the IgG3 response. For the twelve pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokine levels measured for all samples, only those of IL-6 and IL-10 tended to be higher in patients with heterologous as compared to homologous relapses in both admission and relapse episodes.ConclusionsThe data from this limited number of patients with confirmed relapse episodes mirror previous observations of a significant proportion of heterologous parasites in relapses of P. vivax infections in Thailand. Failure of the primaquine treatment that the patients received is unlikely to be due to poor drug metabolism, and could indicate the presence of P. vivax populations in Thailand with poor susceptibility to 8-aminoquinolines.

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