A clonal Plasmodium falciparum population in an isolated outbreak of malaria in the Republic of Cabo Verde

Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 347-355

  Arez, A P ^a   Snounou, G ^b   Pinto, J ^a   Sousa, C A ^a   Modiano, D ^c   Ribeiro, H ^a   Franco, A S ^a   Alves, J ^d   Do Rosario, V E ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^b NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Clonality; Epidemic; Malaria; PCR; Plasmodium falciparum; Republic of Cabo Verde

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL CLONE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG RESISTANCE; EPIDEMIC; GAMETOCYTE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PARASITOLOGY; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFRICA, WESTERN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CLONE CELLS; CULICIDAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RURAL HEALTH;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0032916790     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182099003972     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Alves, J. (1994). Programme National de Lutte contre le paludisme. Plan d'Action 1994-1998. Ministère de la Santé, République du Cap-Vert.
2. Babiker, H., Ranford-Cartwright, L., Sultan, A., Satti, G. & Walliker, D. (1994). Genetic evidence that RI chloroquine resistance of Plasmodium falciparum is caused by recrudescence of resistant parasites. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 88, 328-331.
3. Babiker, H. A., Charlwood, J. D., Smith, T. & Walliker, D. (1995). Gene flow and cross-mating in Plasmodium falciparum in households in a Tanzanian village. Parasitology 111, 433-442.
4. Baruch, D. I., Pasloske, B. L., Singh, H. B., Bi, X., Ma, X. C., Feldman, M., Taraschi, T. F. & Howard, R. J. (1995). Cloning the P. falciparum gene encoding PfEMP1, a malaria variant antigen and adherence receptor on the surface of parasitized human erythrocytes. Cell 82, 77-87.
5. Bayoumi, R. A. L., Babiker, H. A. & Arnot, D. E. (1994). Uptake and efflux of chloroquine by chloroquine resistant Plasmodium falciparum clones recently isolated in Africa. Acta Tropica 54, 141-149.
6. Borre, M. B., Dziegiel, M., Høgh, B., Petersen, E., Rieneck, K., Riley, E., Meis, J. F., Aikawa, M., Nakamura, K., Harada, M., Wind, A., Jakobsen, P. H., Cowland, J., Jepsen, S., Axelsen, N. H. & Vuust, J. (1991). Primary structure and localization of a conserved immunogenic Plasmodium falciparum glutamate rich protein (GLURP) expressed in both the preerythrocytic and erythrocytic stages of the vertebrate life cycle. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 49, 119-131.
7. Brown, K. N. & Brown, I. N. (1965). Immunity to malaria: antigenic variation in chronic infections of Plasmodium knowlesi. Nature, London 208, 1286-1288.
8. Cambournac, F. J. C., Petrarca, V. & Coluzzi, M. (1982). Anopheles arabiensis in the Cape Verde archipelago. Parassitologia 24, 265-267.
9. Certa, U., Rotman, D., Matile, H. & Reber-Liske, R. (1987). A naturally occuring gene encoding the major surface antigen precursor p190 of Plasmodium falciparum lacks tripeptide repeats. EMBO Journal 6, 4137-4142.
10. Collins, F. H., Mehaffey, P., Rasmussen, M., Brandlin-Bennet, A., Odera, J. & Finnerty, V. (1988). Comparison of DNA-probe and isoenzyme methods for differentiating Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles arabiensis (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 25, 116-120.
11. Contamin, H., Fandeur, T., Bonnefoy, S., Skouri, F., Ntoumi, F. & Mercereau-Puijalon, O. (1995). PCR typing of field isolates of Plasmodium falciparum. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 33, 944-951.
12. Druilhe, P., Pradier, O., Marc, J.-P., Miltgen, F., Mazier, D. & Parent, G. (1986). Levels of antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite surface antigens reflect malaria transmission rates and are persistent in the absence of reinfection. Infection and Immunity 53, 393-397.
13. Eyles, D. E. & Young, M. D. (1951). The duration of untreated or inadequately treated Plasmodium falciparum infections in the human host. Journal of the National Malaria Society 10, 327-336.
14. Färnert, A., Snounou, G., Ingegerd, R. & Björkman, A. (1997). Daily dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum subpopulations in asymptomatic children in a holoendemic area. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 56, 538-547.
15. Garnham, P. C. C. (1966). Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium reichenowi. In Malaria Parasites And Other Haemosporidia, pp. 357-430. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford.
16. Gupta, S. & Day, K. P. (1994). A strain theory of malaria transmission. Parasitology Today 10, 476-481.
17. Gupta, S., Trenholme, K., Anderson, R. M. & DAY, K. P. (1994). Antigenic diversity and the transmission dynamics of Plasmodium falciparium. Science 263, 961-963.
18. Habluetzel, A., Esposito, F. & Lombardi, S. (1989). Immunotechniques for epidemiology of malaria: appropriate tools for integration of primary health cares with malaria research and control. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 83, 15-19.
19. Haddad, D., Snounou, G., Mattei, D., Enamorada, I. G., Figueroa, J., Ståhl, S. & Berzins, K. (1999). Limited genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum parasites in field isolates from Honduras. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (in the Press.)
20. Kitchen, S. F. (1949). Falciparum malaria. In Malariology. A Comprehensive Survey of all Aspects of this Group of Diseases from a Global Standpoint, vol. II (ed, Boyd, M. F.), pp. 995-1016. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia and London.
21. Mercereau-Puijalon, O., Fandeur, T., Bonnefoy, S., Jacquemot, C. & Sarthou, J.-L. (1991). A Study of the genomic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum in Senegal. 2. Typing by the use of the polymerase chain reaction. Acta Tropica 49, 293-304.
22. Molineaux, L. (1988). The epidemiology of human malaria as an explanation of its distribution, including some implications for its control. In Malaria, Principles and Practice of Malariology, vol. 2 (ed, Wernsdorfer, W. H. & McGregor, I.), pp. 913-998. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh.
23. Pinto, J., Arez, A. P., Franco, S., Rosario, V. E. D., Palsson, K., Jaenson, T. G. T. & Snounou, G. (1997). Simplified methodology for PCR investigation of midguts from mosquitoes of the Anopheles gambiae complex, in which the vector and Plasmodium species can both be identified. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 91, 217-219.
24. Ribeiro, H., Ramos, H. C., Capela, R. A. & Pires, C. A. (1980). Os mosquitos de Cabo Verde (Diptera: Culicidae). Sistemática, distribuição, bioecologia e importância médica. Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, Lisbon.
25. Rieckman, K. H., Campbell, G. H., Sax, L. J. & Mrema, J. E. (1978). Drug sensitivity of Plasmodium falciparum. An in-vitro microtechnique. Lancet i, 22-23.
26. Roberts, D. J., Craig, A. G., Berendt, A. R., Pinches, R., Nash, G., Marsh, K. & Newbold, C. I. (1992). Rapid switching to multiple antigenic and adhesive phenotypes in malaria. Nature, London 357, 689-692.
27. Scott, J. A., Brogdon, W. G. & Collins, F. H. (1993). Identification of single specimens of the Anopheles gambiae complex by the polymerase chain reaction. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 49, 520-529.
28. Smith, J. D., Chitnis, C. E., Craig, A. G., Robert, D. J., Hudson-Taylor, D. E., Peterson, D. S., Pinches, R., Newbold, C. I. & Miller, L. H. (1995). Switches in expression of Plasmodium falciparum var genes correlate with changes in antigenic and cytoadherent phenotypes of infected erythrocytes. Cell 82, 101-110.
29. Smythe, J. A., Peterson, M. G., Coppel, R. L., Saul, A. J., Kemp, D. J. & Anders, R. F. (1990). Structural diversity in the 45-kilodalton merozoite surface antigen of Plasmodium falciparum. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 39, 227-234.
30. Snounou, G., Viriyakosol, S., Zhu, X. P., Jarra, W., Pinheiro, L., Rosario, V. E. Do., Thaithong, S. & Brown, K. N. (1993). High sensitivity of detection of human malaria parasites by the use of nested polymerase chain reaction. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 61, 315-320.
31. Su, X.-Z., Heatwole, V. M., Wertheimer, S. P., Guinet, F., Herrfeldt, J. A., Peterson, D. S., Ravetch, J. A. & Wellems, T. E. (1995). The large diverse gene family var encodes proteins involved in cytoadherence and antigenic variation of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes. Cell 82, 89-100.
32. Tanabe, K., Mackay, M., Goman, M. & Scaife, J. G. (1987). Allelic dimorphism in a surface antigen gene of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Journal of Molecular Biology 195, 273-287.
33. Viriyakosol, S., Siripoon, N., Zhu, X. P., Jarra, W., Seugorn, A., Brown, K. N. & Snounou, G. (1994). Plasmodium falciparum: Selective growth of subpopulations from field samples following in vitro culture, as detected by the polymerase chain reaction. Experimental Parasitology 79, 517-525.
34. Viriyakosol, S., Siripoon, N., Petcharapirat, C., Petcharapirat, P., Jarra, W., Thaithong, S., Brown, K. N. & Snounou, G. (1995). Genotyping of Plasmodium falciparum ìsolates by the polymerase chain reaction and potential uses in epidemiological studies. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 73, 85-95.
35. Wijesundera, M. D. S., Peiris, J. S. M., Aruiyaratne, Y. G., Verdini, A. S., Pessi, A. & Del Guidice, G. (1990). Antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites following a malarial outbreak in a non-endemic area of Sri-Lanka. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 84, 35-39.