First report of a phylogenetic analysis of an autochthonous Plasmodium vivax strain isolated from a malaria case in East Attica, Greece

Malaria Journal

Case Report

Petros Matsoukas¹  Melina-Vassiliki Liakata¹  Athina Stoupi¹  Athanasios Kossyvakis²  Chryssoula Nicolaou²  Stylianos Chatzipanagiotou²  Emmanouil Magiorkinis³  Efthimia Petinaki⁴  Anastasios Ioannidis⁵ 

[1] Athens Medical Centre - Peristeri, Peristeri, Greece;Department of Biopathology and Clinical Microbiology, Athens Medical School, Aeginition Hospital, Vass. Sophias av. 72-74, 115 28, Athens, Greece;Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens-Goudi, Greece;Department of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Thessalia, Larissa, Greece;Department of Nursing, Faculty of Human Movement and Quality of Life Sciences, University of Peloponnese, Sparta, Greece;

关键词: Malaria;    Greece;    Plasmodium vivax;    CSP;    MSP-1;    Phylogenetic analysis;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1475-2875-12-299

 received in 2013-06-21, accepted in 2013-08-18,  发布年份 2013

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Malaria has become an emerging infection in Greece, which is the doorstep to Europe for thousands of immigrants. With increasing immigration, cases with evidence of domestic transmission (autochthonous) are being reported. In the present study, an isolate of Plasmodium vivax from an autochthonous clinical case was subjected to phylogenetic analysis of the genes encoding the merozoite surface protein 1 (MSP-1) and the circumsporozoite protein (CSP). In the MSP region, the strain was related with strains from Brazil, South Korea, Turkey and Thailand, whereas in the CSP region, with strains from Brazil, Colombia and New Guinea. The present study establishes for the first time in Greece the basis for the creation of a database comprising genotypic and phylogenetic characteristics of Plasmodium spp.

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