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Recent experiments have suggested that resistance to antimalarial drugs, in particular chloroquine, is associated with increased transmission. However, epidemiological patterns suggest the opposite: ie. that resistance should be associated with a transmission cost. Here, Jacob Koella reviews the evidence for either a cost or a benefit of chloroquine resistance and proposes ideas from population and evolutionary biology that might explain the apparent contradiction between experimental and epidemiological evidence.
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- J C Koella
- Department of Zoology, University of Aarhus, Universitetsparken B135, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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Sowunmi A, Okuboyejo TM, Gbotosho GO, Happi CT. Risk factors for gametocyte carriage in uncomplicated falciparum malaria in children before and after artemisinin-based combination treatments. Chemotherapy 2012; 57:497-504. [PMID: 22261842 DOI: 10.1159/000334126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2011] [Accepted: 09/13/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Artemisinin-based combination treatments (ACTs) are the recommended first-line antimalarials globally, but their influence on the risk factors associated with gametocyte carriage has had little evaluation in endemic areas. METHODS The risk factors associated with gametocytaemia at presentation and after ACTs were evaluated in 835 children assigned to artesunate, artesunate-amodiaquine, artesunate-mefloquine or artemether-lumefantrine. RESULTS Gametocyte carriage at enrolment was 8.4%. During follow-up, 24 patients (2.8%) developed gametocytaemia, which in 83% (20 patients) had developed by day 7 following treatment. In a multiple regression model, 2 factors were independent risk factors for the presence of gametocytaemia at enrolment, namely age <3 years (adjusted odds ratio 2.03, 95% confidence interval 1.01-4.05; p = 0.04) and enrolment before 2009 (adjusted odds ratio 4.2, 95% confidence interval 2.09-8.44; p < 0.001). Haematocrit <25% and parasitaemia <50,000/μl blood were associated with an increased risk of gametocytaemia. Following treatment, 3 factors were independent risk factors for gametocytaemia, namely gametocytaemia at enrolment (adjusted odds ratio 46.39, 95% confidence interval 22.3-96.46; p < 0.0001) and treatment with artesunate (adjusted odds ratio 6.74, 95% confidence interval 1.79-25.27; p = 0.005) or artesunate-mefloquine (adjusted odds ratio 9.66, 95% confidence interval 2.87-32.46; p < 0.0.0001) relative to other ACTs. CONCLUSION ACTs modified the risk factors associated with gametocyte carriage after use.
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- Akintunde Sowunmi
- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
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Long GH, Chan BHK, Allen JE, Read AF, Graham AL. Experimental manipulation of immune-mediated disease and its fitness costs for rodent malaria parasites. BMC Evol Biol 2008; 8:128. [PMID: 18447949 PMCID: PMC2391164 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2007] [Accepted: 04/30/2008] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Explaining parasite virulence (harm to the host) represents a major challenge for evolutionary and biomedical scientists alike. Most theoretical models of virulence evolution assume that virulence arises as a direct consequence of host exploitation, the process whereby parasites convert host resources into transmission opportunities. However, infection-induced disease can be immune-mediated (immunopathology). Little is known about how immunopathology affects parasite fitness, or how it will affect the evolution of parasite virulence. Here we studied the effects of immunopathology on infection-induced host mortality rate and lifetime transmission potential - key components of parasite fitness - using the rodent malaria model, Plasmodium chabaudi chabaudi. RESULTS Neutralizing interleukin [IL]-10, an important regulator of inflammation, allowed us to experimentally increase the proportion of virulence due to immunopathology for eight parasite clones. In vivo blockade of the IL-10 receptor (IL-10R) with a neutralizing antibody resulted in a shorter time to death that was independent of parasite density and was particularly marked for normally avirulent clones. This suggests that IL-10 induction may provide a pathway to avirulence for P. c. chabaudi. Despite the increased investment in transmission-stage parasites observed for some clones in response to IL-10R blockade, experimental enhancement of immunopathology incurred a uniform fitness cost to all parasite clones by reducing lifetime transmission potential. CONCLUSION This is the first experimental study to demonstrate that infection-induced immunopathology and parasite genetic variability may together have the potential to shape virulence evolution. In accord with recent theory, the data show that some forms of immunopathology may select for parasites that make hosts less sick.
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- Gráinne H Long
- Institutes of Evolution, Immunology and Infection Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, UK.
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Sowunmi A, Fateye BA, Adedeji AA, Fehintola FA, Bamgboye AE, Babalola CP, Happi TC, Gbotosho GO. Effects of antifolates--co-trimoxazole and pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine--on gametocytes in children with acute, symptomatic, uncomplicated, Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 2005; 100:451-5. [PMID: 16113897 DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02762005000400019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Antimalarial drugs including the antifolate, pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine (PS), can modulate the prevalence and intensities of gametocytaemia following treatment of acute malaria infections. They may also directly influence the transmission and spread of drug insensitivity. Little is known of the effects of co-trimoxazole (Co-T), another antifolate antimalarial, on gametocytes in children with acute malaria infections. We compared the effects of Co-T and PS on the prevalence and intensities of gametocytaemia and gametocyte sex ratios in 102 children aged 0.5-12 years presenting with acute and uncomplicated falciparum malaria. Compared to pre-treatment, both drugs significantly increased gametocyte carriage post-initiation of treatment. However, gametocyte carriage was significantly lower on day 14 in those treated with Co-T than PS. Significant increase in gametocytaemia with time occurred in PS--but not Co-T-treated children. Kaplan-Meier survival curve of the cumulative probability of remaining gametocyte-free in children who were agametocytaemic at enrollment showed that by day 7 of follow up, children treated with PS had a significantly higher propensity to have developed gametocytes than in Co-T-treated children (Log-rank statistic 5.35, df = 1, P = 0.02). Gametocyte sex ratio changes were similar following treatment with both drugs. PS and Co-T treatment of acute malaria infections in children from this endemic area is associated with significant increases in prevalence and intensities of gametocytaemia but these effects are more marked in those treated with PS than Co-T.
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- A Sowunmi
- Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Institute for Medical Research and Training, Ibadan, Nigeria.
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Bennett TN, Kosar AD, Roepe PD. Plasmodium falciparum strain GC-03 exhibits hyper-gametocytogenesis in partially hemoglobin depleted red blood cells. Mol Biochem Parasitol 2005; 139:261-5. [PMID: 15664660 DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2004.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2004] [Revised: 10/28/2004] [Accepted: 11/03/2004] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Tyler N Bennett
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, 3900 Reservoir Road, Washington, DC 20057, USA
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Sowunmi A, Fateye BA, Adedeji AA, Fehintola FA, Happi TC. Risk factors for gametocyte carriage in uncomplicated falciparum malaria in children. Parasitology 2004; 129:255-62. [PMID: 15471001 DOI: 10.1017/s0031182004005669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The risk factors associated with gametocytaemia at presentation and after treatment with different antimalarial drug regimens were evaluated in 767 children enrolled prospectively in 5 antimalarial drug trials between July 1996 and December 2002 in a hyperendemic area of southwestern Nigeria. The children were assigned to one of 6 treatment groups: chloroquine (CQ) only; pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine (PS) only; amodiaquine (AQ) only; CQ combined with chlorpheniramine (CQCP); or PS combined with CQ (CQPS) or AQ (AQPS). At enrolment, 115 (15%) of 767 children were gametocyte carriers. During follow-up, 15·6% of all patients (i.e. 120 patients) developed patent gametocytaemia, which in 85% (102 patients) had developed by day 7 following treatment. In a multiple regression model, 4 factors were found to be independent risk factors for the presence of gametocytaemia at enrolment: male gender (adjusted odds ratio [AOR]=0·55, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0·36–0·83,P=0·005), absence of fever (AOR=1·61, 95% CI 1·05–2·5,P=0·03), duration of illness >3 days (AOR=1·57, 95% CI 1·0–2·4,P=0·047), and asexual parasite densities less than 5000/μl (AOR=0·42, 95% CI 0·24–0·73,P=0·002). The presence of patent gametocytaemia at enrolment (AOR=0·04, 95% CI 0·02–0·07,P<0·001) and recrudescence of asexual parasites within 14 days were associated with the presence of gametocytaemia 7 or 14 days after enrolment (AOR=0·5, 95% CI 0·3–0·8,P=0·007). Delay in the time taken to clear the initial parasitaemia (>2 days) was associated with increased risk of subsequent gametocyte carriage. These findings may have implications for malaria control efforts in sub-Saharan Africa where control of the disease depends almost entirely on chemotherapy.
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- A Sowunmi
- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Institute for Medical Research and Training, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
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Buckling A, Crooks L, Read A. Plasmodium chabaudi: effect of antimalarial drugs on gametocytogenesis. Exp Parasitol 1999; 93:45-54. [PMID: 10464038 DOI: 10.1006/expr.1999.4429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The proportion of asexual blood-stage malaria parasites that develop into transmission stages (gametocytes) can increase in response to stress. We investigated whether stress imposed by a variety of antimalarial drugs administered before or during infection increased gametocyte production (gametocytogenesis) in vivo in the rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium chabaudi. All methods of drug treatment greatly reduced the numbers of asexual parasites produced during an infection but resulted in either no reduction in numbers of gametocytes or a smaller reduction than that experienced by asexuals. We used a simple model to estimate temporal variation in gametocyte production. Temporal patterns of gametocytogenesis did not greatly differ between untreated and prophylaxis infections, with rates of gametocytogenesis always increasing as the infection progressed. In contrast, administration of drugs 5 days after infection stimulated increased rates of gametocytogenesis early in the infection, resulting in earlier peak gametocyte densities relative to untreated infections. Given the correlation between gametocyte densities and infectivity to mosquito vectors, and the high frequency of subcurative drug therapy and prophylaxis in human populations, these data suggest that antimalarial drugs may frequently have only a small effect on reducing malaria transmission and may help to explain the rapid spread of drug-resistant geno-types.
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- A Buckling
- Institute of Cell, Animal & Population Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, United Kingdom.
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The purpose of this review is to summarize the biology of Plasmodium in the mosquito including recent data to contribute to better understanding of the developmental interaction between mosquito and malarial parasite. The entire sporogonic cycle is discussed taking into consideration different parasite/vector interactions and factors affecting parasite development to the mosquito.
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- A B Simonetti
- Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil.
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Mons B, Sinden RE. Laboratory models for research in vivo and in vitro on malaria parasites of mammals: Current status. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1990; 6:3-7. [PMID: 15463241 DOI: 10.1016/0169-4758(90)90377-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In research aimed at developing strategies for the eradication of human malaria, various species of rodent, avian and non-human primate plasmodia are used as laboratory models. Here Barend Mons and Robert Sinden attempt to summarize the most common laboratory models for mammalian malaria, and to shed some light on their applicability to different aspects of malaria research.
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- B Mons
- Laboratory of Parasitology, Medical Faculty, University of Leiden, PO Box 9605, Wassenaarsweg 62, 2300 RG Leiden, The Netherlands
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Trager W, Gill GS. Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte formation in vitro: its stimulation by phorbol diesters and by 8-bromo cyclic adenosine monophosphate. THE JOURNAL OF PROTOZOOLOGY 1989; 36:451-4. [PMID: 2681714 DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1989.tb01079.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate increased the number of gametocytes by 50 to 100% in well or petri dish cultures of the HB-3 clone of Plasmodium falciparum. Phorbol dibutyrate had a similar effect. The optimal concentration for each of these agents was 20 ng/ml or approximately 30 nM. No effect of forskolin was found, other than a general inhibition of growth at concentrations over 10 microM. An inhibitor of phosphodiesterase, 8-bromo cyclic adenosine monophosphate (at concentrations of 0.1 and 1.0 microM) also significantly increased the number of gametocytes formed by this clone.
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- W Trager
- Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021
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Janse CJ, Boorsma EG, Ramesar J, van Vianen P, van der Meer R, Zenobi P, Casaglia O, Mons B, van der Berg FM. Plasmodium berghei: gametocyte production, DNA content, and chromosome-size polymorphisms during asexual multiplication in vivo. Exp Parasitol 1989; 68:274-82. [PMID: 2649389 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4894(89)90109-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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In this study the DNA content and the karyotype of clones of Plasmodium berghei, which differed in the capability to produce gametocytes, were determined. The DNA content per haploid genome was established by cytofluorometric methods after staining of the haploid merozoites with DNA-specific fluorescent dyes. Field inversion gel electrophoresis was used to establish the number and size of the chromosomes. Parasites of a high gametocyte producer clone (original HP) and a low producer clone (original LP) contained 13 to 14 chromosomes in the size range of 0.5-3.8 megabase. In four independent experiments parasites of the original HP clone were maintained in mice and were mechanically transmitted for prolonged periods of time (up to 90 weeks). During the transmission period the capability to produce gametocytes decreased in all four lines. After mosquito transmission of parasites from these low producer lines, the gametocyte production returned to the level of the original HP clone. The total DNA content per haploid genome of low producer parasites was not significantly different from that of HP parasites. During prolonged periods of asexual multiplication of the HP clone in vivo, changes in the relative size of several chromosomes were detected. Mosquito transmission of the original HP clone did not result in a change of the karyotype. However, novel karyotypes were readily observed after mosquito transmission of parasites of the low producer lines. The decrease of the capability to produce gametocytes did not necessarily involve detectable changes in DNA content or in karyotype.
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- C J Janse
- Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
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