Limitations of microscopy to differentiate Plasmodium species in a region co-endemic for Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium knowlesi

Malaria Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Barber, Bridget E ^a,b   William, Timothy ^b,c   Grigg, Matthew J ^a,b   Yeo, Tsin W ^a,d   Anstey, Nicholas M ^a,d  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b Queen Elizabeth Hospital   (Malaysia)

^c Sabah Department of Health   (Malaysia)

^d ROYAL DARWIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Malaria; Microscopy; Plasmodium knowlesi

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALAYSIA; MICROSCOPY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI MALARIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALAYSIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871956766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-12-8     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. World Malaria Report 2011. World Health Organization, Available: http://www.who.int/malaria/world-malaria-report-2011/9789241564403-eng.pdf. Accessed 3rd May
2. Effects of artesunate-mefloquine combination on incidence of Plasmodium falciparum malaria and mefloquine resistance in western Thailand: a prospective study. Nosten F, Van Vugt M, Price R, Luxemburger C, Thway K, Brockman A, McGready R, Ter Kuile F, Lancet 2000 356 297 302 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)02505-8 11071185 (Pubitemid 30459588)
3. Malaria in Brazil: an overview. Oliveira-Ferreira J, Lacerda MVG, Brasil P, Ladislau JLB, Tauil PL, Daniel-Ribeiro CT, Malar J 2010 9 115 10.1186/1475-2875-9-115 20433744
4. A long neglected world malaria map: Plasmodium vivax endemicity in 2010. Gething PW, Elyazar IRF, Moyes CL, Smith DL, Battle KE, Guerra CA, Patil AP, Tatem AJ, Howes RE, Myers MF, PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2012 6 1814 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001814 22970336
5. Multidrug-resistant Plasmodium vivax associated with severe and fatal malaria: a prospective study in Papua Indonesia. Tjitra E, Anstey NM, Sugiarto P, Warikar N, Kenangalem E, Karyana M, Lampah DA, Price RN, PLoS Med 2008 5 128 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050128 18563962 (Pubitemid 351919110)
6. Plasmodium vivax and mixed infections are associated with severe malaria in children: a prospective cohort study from Papua New Guinea. Genton B, D'Acremont V, Rare L, Baea K, Reeder JC, Alpers MP, Müller I, PLoS Med 2008 5 127 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050127 18563961 (Pubitemid 351919109)
7. New developments in Plasmodium vivax malaria: severe disease and the rise of chloroquine resistance. Price RN, Douglas NM, Anstey NM, Curr Opin Infect Dis 2009 22 430 10.1097/QCO.0b013e32832f14c1 19571748
8. Plasmodium vivax: clinical spectrum, risk factors and pathogenesis. Anstey NM, Douglas NM, Poespoprodjo JR, Price R, Adv Parasitol 2012 80 151 201 23199488
9. Clinical and laboratory features of human Plasmodium knowlesi infection. Daneshvar C, Davis TM, Cox-Singh J, Rafa'ee M, Zakaria S, Divis P, Singh B, Clin Infect Dis 2009 49 852 860 10.1086/605439 19635025
10. Epidemiology of Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in northeast Sabah Malaysia: family clusters and wide age distribution. Barber BE, William T, Dhararaj P, Anderios F, Grigg MJ, Yeo TW, Anstey NM, Malar J 2012 11 401 10.1186/1475-2875-11-401 23216947
11. Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in children. Barber BE, William T, Jikal M, Jilip J, Dhararaj P, Menon J, Yeo TW, Anstey NM, Emerg Infect Dis 2011 17 814 820 10.3201/eid1705.101489 21529389
12. Increasing incidence of Plasmodium knowlesi malaria following control of P. falciparum and P. vivax malaria in Sabah, Malaysia. William T, Rahman HA, Jelip J, Ibrahim MY, Menon J, Grigg MJ, Yeo TW, Anstey NM, Barber BE, PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2013 In press
13. Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in humans is widely distributed and potentially life threatening. Cox-Singh J, Davis TM, Lee KS, Shamsul SS, Matusop A, Ratnam S, Rahman HA, Conway DJ, Singh B, Clin Infect Dis 2008 46 165 171 10.1086/524888 18171245 (Pubitemid 351269152)
14. Incidence of malaria in the Interior Division of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, based on nested PCR. Joveen-Neoh WF, Chong KL, Wong CM, Lau TY, J Parasitol Res 2011 10.1155/2011/104284
15. A prospective comparative study of knowlesi, falciparum and vivax malaria in Sabah, Malaysia: high proportion with severe disease from Plasmodium knowlesi and P. vivax but no mortality with early referral and artesunate therapy. Barber BE, William T, Grigg MJ, Menon J, Auburn S, Marfurt J, Anstey NM, Yeo TW, Clin Infect Dis Advanced Access 2012 10.1093/cid/cis902
16. Severe Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in a tertiary hospital, Sabah Malaysia. William T, Menon J, Rajahram G, Chan L, Ma G, Donaldson S, Khoo S, Fredrick C, Jilip J, Anstey NM, Yeo TW, Emerg Infect Dis 2011 17 1248 1255 10.3201/eid1707.101017 21762579
17. Severe malaria-a case of fatal Plasmodium knowlesi infection with post-mortem findings. Cox-Singh J, Hiu J, Lucas SB, Divis PC, Zulkarnaen M, Chandran P, Wong KT, Adem P, Zaki SR, Singh B, Malar J 2010 9 10 10.1186/1475-2875-9-10 20064229
18. Deaths due toPlasmodium knowlesimalaria in Sabah. Malaysia: association with reporting asP. malariaeand delayed parenteral artesunate. Rajahram G, Barber BE, William T, Menon J, Anstey NM, Yeo TW, Malar J 2012 11 284 10.1186/1475-2875-11-284 22905799
19. Zoonotic malaria: Plasmodium knowlesi, an emerging pathogen. Cox-Singh J, Curr Opin Infect Dis 2012 25 10.1097/OCO.1090b1013e3283558780
20. Comparison of field and expert laboratory microscopy for active surveillance for asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax in western Thailand. Coleman RE, Maneechai N, Rachaphaew N, Kumpitak C, Miller RS, Soyseng V, Thimasarn K, Sattabongkot J, Am J Trop Med Hyg 2002 67 141 144 12389937 (Pubitemid 135715326)
21. Dependence of malaria detection and species diagnosis by microscopy on parasite density. McKenzies FE, Sirichaisinthop J, Miller RS, Gasser RA Jr, Wongsrichanalai C, Am J Trop Med Hyg 2003 69 372 376 14640495 (Pubitemid 38248270)
22. Coatney GR, Collins WE, Warren MW, Contacos PG, The Primate Malarias Washington: US Government Printing Office 1971
23. Morphological features and differential counts of Plasmodium knowlesi parasites in naturally acquired human infections. Lee K-S, Cox-Singh J, Singh B, Malar J 2009 8 73 10.1186/1475-2875-8-73 19383118
24. World Health Organization, Basic Malaria Microscopy Geneva: World Health Organization 1991
25. World Health Organization, Management of severe malaria: a practical handbook Geneva: World Health Organization 3 2012
26. World Health Organization, Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria Geneva: World Health Organization 2 2010
27. World Health Organization: Meeting Report, Informal Consultation on the Public Health Importance of Plasmodium knowlesi Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia 2011
28. Use of a rapid, single-round, multiplex PCR to detect malarial parasites and identify the species present. Padley D, Moody A, Chiodini P, Saldanha J, Ann Trop Med Parasitol 2003 97 131 137 10.1179/000349803125002977 12803868 (Pubitemid 36543234)
29. Spurious amplification of a Plasmodium vivax small-subunit RNA gene by use of primers currently used to detect P. knowlesi. Imwong M, Tanomsing N, Pukrittayakamee S, Day NPJ, White NJ, Snounou G, J Clin Microbiol 2009 47 4173 10.1128/JCM.00811-09 19812279
30. National antibiotic guideline 2008. Ministry of Health Malaysia, Available: http://www.pharmacy.gov.my/aeimages//File/National-Antibiotic- Guideline-2008-edit%282%29.pdf. Accessed 3rd August 2012
31. Artemisinin combination therapy for vivax malaria. Douglas NM, Anstey NM, Angus BJ, Nosten F, Price RN, Lancet Infect Dis 2010 10 405 416 10.1016/S1473-3099(10)70079-7 20510281
32. Chloroquine resistant Plasmodium vivax malaria in Borneo. Ahlm C, Wiström J, Carlsson H, J Travel Med 1996 3 124 124 10.1111/j.1708-8305. 1996.tb00719.x 9815438
33. Chloroquine resistance in Plasmodium vivax. Baird JK, Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2004 48 4075 4083 10.1128/AAC.48.11.4075-4083.2004 15504824 (Pubitemid 39434858)
34. Malaria: A retrospective study in Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah (HTAR), Klang, Selangor, Malaysia (2004-2006). Jamaiah I, Rohela M, Nissapatorn V, Amriana A, Sumaiyah M, Lila M, Norzawati A, Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 2007 38 1 18637404
35. Malaria: a 10-year (1994-2003) retrospective study at University Malaya Medical Center (UMMC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Jamaiah I, Rohela M, Nissapatorn V, Khoo B, Khoo P, Radhiyah M, Aisyah A, Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 2005 36 60 63 16438181
36. First case of detection of Plasmodium knowlesi in Spain by Real Time PCR in a traveller from Southeast Asia. Tang T, Salas A, Ali-Tammam M, Martinez M, Lanza M, Arroyo A, Rubio J, Malar J 2010 9 219 10.1186/1475-2875-9-219 20663184
37. Human Plasmodium knowlesi infection detected by rapid diagnostic tests for malaria. van Hellemond J, Rutten M, Koelewijn R, Zeeman A, Verweij J, Wismans P, Kocken C, van Genderen P, Emerg Infect Dis 2009 15 1478 10.3201/eid1509.090358 19788819
38. Cross-reactivity in rapid diagnostic tests between human malaria and zoonotic simian malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi infections. Kawai S, Hirai M, Haruki K, Tanabe K, Chigusa Y, Parasitol Int 2009 58 300 302 10.1016/j.parint.2009.06.004 19527797
39. Use of malaria rapid diagnostic test to identify Plasmodium knowlesi infection. McCutchan T, Piper R, Makler M, Emerg Infect Dis 2008 14 1750 18976561
40. Evaluation of the sensitivity of a pLDH-based and an aldolase-based Rapid Diagnostic Test for the diagnosis of uncomplicated and severe malaria caused by PCR-confirmed Plasmodium knowlesi, P. falciparum and P. vivax. Barber BE, William T, Grigg M, Piera KA, Yeo TW, Anstey NM, under review