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He Q, Chaillet JK, Labbé F. Antigenic strain diversity predicts different biogeographic patterns of maintenance and decline of antimalarial drug resistance. eLife 2024; 12:RP90888. [PMID: 38363295 PMCID: PMC10942604 DOI: 10.7554/elife.90888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2024] Open
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The establishment and spread of antimalarial drug resistance vary drastically across different biogeographic regions. Though most infections occur in sub-Saharan Africa, resistant strains often emerge in low-transmission regions. Existing models on resistance evolution lack consensus on the relationship between transmission intensity and drug resistance, possibly due to overlooking the feedback between antigenic diversity, host immunity, and selection for resistance. To address this, we developed a novel compartmental model that tracks sensitive and resistant parasite strains, as well as the host dynamics of generalized and antigen-specific immunity. Our results show a negative correlation between parasite prevalence and resistance frequency, regardless of resistance cost or efficacy. Validation using chloroquine-resistant marker data supports this trend. Post discontinuation of drugs, resistance remains high in low-diversity, low-transmission regions, while it steadily decreases in high-diversity, high-transmission regions. Our study underscores the critical role of malaria strain diversity in the biogeographic patterns of resistance evolution.
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- Qixin He
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue UniversityWest LafayetteUnited States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue UniversityWest LafayetteUnited States
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of ChicagoChicagoUnited States
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He Q, Chaillet JK, Labbé F. Antigenic strain diversity predicts different biogeographic patterns of maintenance and decline of anti-malarial drug resistance. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.03.06.531320. [PMID: 37987011 PMCID: PMC10659383 DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.06.531320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2023]
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The establishment and spread of anti-malarial drug resistance vary drastically across different biogeographic regions. Though most infections occur in Sub-Saharan Africa, resistant strains often emerge in low-transmission regions. Existing models on resistance evolution lack consensus on the relationship between transmission intensity and drug resistance, possibly due to overlooking the feedback between antigenic diversity, host immunity, and selection for resistance. To address this, we developed a novel compartmental model that tracks sensitive and resistant parasite strains, as well as the host dynamics of generalized and antigen-specific immunity. Our results show a negative correlation between parasite prevalence and resistance frequency, regardless of resistance cost or efficacy. Validation using chloroquine-resistant marker data supports this trend. Post discontinuation of drugs, resistance remains high in low-diversity, low-transmission regions, while it steadily decreases in high-diversity, high-transmission regions. Our study underscores the critical role of malaria strain diversity in the biogeographic patterns of resistance evolution.
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Affiliation(s)
- Qixin He
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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Cañón M, Diaz H, Olarte A. Mathematical model for the spread of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum parasite considering transmission conditions. J Theor Biol 2017; 435:1-11. [PMID: 28888945 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2016] [Revised: 07/21/2017] [Accepted: 09/01/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Antimalarial drugs have been used as one of the main strategies for controlling this disease. However, the spread of drug resistance in the Plasmodium falciparum parasite has generated major challenges for the control of malaria. For this reason, it is necessary to develop an efficient policy considering the parasite behavior in relation to drug treatment and epidemiological parameters. To achieve this goal, we propose a mathematical model that describes the dynamics of parasite population considering the transmission effects between mosquitoes and humans. In order to quantify the drug treatment effect on humans and the generation of new parasite genotypes within the mosquito, the parasite population was divided into those found in humans and mosquitoes. To test the model, we simulate several parasite populations, related with pyrimethamine resistance, in high and low transmission conditions. Simulation results show the dynamics of different parasite populations depending on drug coverage and the effect of epidemiological parameters. These results show that disease elimination may not be possible by using only pyrimethamine treatment, so we include different control strategies and we observe that reducing contacts between mosquitoes and humans helped the drug coverage to reduce the prevalence of disease. Finally, this model is used to propose an optimal policy that minimizes disease prevalence; the principal result is that the most effective coverage of the drug is around middle coverage. The model can also be used to evaluate not only pyrimethamine treatments, but it can be adapted for the study of resistance to other drugs.
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- Mario Cañón
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Carrera 45 No. 26-85, Bogotá, Colombia.
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- Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Carrera 45 No. 26-85, Bogotá, Colombia.
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- Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Carrera 45 No. 26-85, Bogotá, Colombia.
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Mandal S, Sarkar RR, Sinha S. Mathematical models of malaria--a review. Malar J 2011; 10:202. [PMID: 21777413 PMCID: PMC3162588 DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 204] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2010] [Accepted: 07/21/2011] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Mathematical models have been used to provide an explicit framework for understanding malaria transmission dynamics in human population for over 100 years. With the disease still thriving and threatening to be a major source of death and disability due to changed environmental and socio-economic conditions, it is necessary to make a critical assessment of the existing models, and study their evolution and efficacy in describing the host-parasite biology. In this article, starting from the basic Ross model, the key mathematical models and their underlying features, based on their specific contributions in the understanding of spread and transmission of malaria have been discussed. The first aim of this article is to develop, starting from the basic models, a hierarchical structure of a range of deterministic models of different levels of complexity. The second objective is to elaborate, using some of the representative mathematical models, the evolution of modelling strategies to describe malaria incidence by including the critical features of host-vector-parasite interactions. Emphasis is more on the evolution of the deterministic differential equation based epidemiological compartment models with a brief discussion on data based statistical models. In this comprehensive survey, the approach has been to summarize the modelling activity in this area so that it helps reach a wider range of researchers working on epidemiology, transmission, and other aspects of malaria. This may facilitate the mathematicians to further develop suitable models in this direction relevant to the present scenario, and help the biologists and public health personnel to adopt better understanding of the modelling strategies to control the disease.
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- Sandip Mandal
- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR), Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500007, India
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- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR), Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500007, India
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- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR), Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500007, India
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Laufer MK, Takala-Harrison S, Dzinjalamala FK, Stine OC, Taylor TE, Plowe CV. Return of chloroquine-susceptible falciparum malaria in Malawi was a reexpansion of diverse susceptible parasites. J Infect Dis 2010; 202:801-8. [PMID: 20662717 DOI: 10.1086/655659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The spread of drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria has been a major impediment to malaria control and threatens prospects for elimination. We recently demonstrated the return of chloroquine-susceptible malaria in Malawi after chloroquine use was abandoned. In this study, we trace the origins of chloroquine-resistant and chloroquine-susceptible parasites in Malawi by sequencing the P. falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter gene (pfcrt) and by genotyping microsatellites flanking this gene in isolates from infections that occurred in Malawi from 1992 through 2005. Malaria parasites from 2005 harbored the expected wild-type pfcrt haplotype associated with chloroquine susceptibility and have maintained high levels of diversity without linkage disequilibrium, which suggests that the return of chloroquine susceptibility is not the result of a back mutation in a formerly resistant parasite or a new selective sweep. Chloroquine-susceptible parasites that predominate in Malawi likely represent a reexpansion of the susceptible parasites that survived in the population despite widespread drug pressure in the region.
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- Miriam K Laufer
- Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 685 W. Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
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Portela C, Afonso CMM, Pinto MMM, Lopes D, Nogueira F, do Rosário V. Synthesis and antimalarial properties of new chloro-9H-xanthones with an aminoalkyl side chain. Chem Biodivers 2007; 4:1508-19. [PMID: 17638332 DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.200790130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The synthesis and antimalarial properties of twelve new chlorinated 9H-xanthones, carrying a [2-(diethylamino)ethyl]amino group in position 1, are reported. All compounds were found to be active towards the chloroquine-susceptible and chloroquine-resistant strains 3D7 and Dd2, resp., of the protozoa parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Especially one compound, 6-chloro-1-{[2-(diethylamino)ethyl]amino}-9H-xanthen-9-one (1k), was found to exhibit significant in vitro activity (IC50 = 3.9 microM) towards the resistant Dd2 strain.
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- César Portela
- Centro de Estudos de Química Orgânica, Fitoquímica e Farmacologia, Universidade do Porto, Serviço de Química Orgânica, Faculdade de Farmácia, Rua Aníbal Cunha, 164, PT-4050-047 Porto
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Hastings IM. Complex dynamics and stability of resistance to antimalarial drugs. Parasitology 2006; 132:615-24. [PMID: 16426485 DOI: 10.1017/s0031182005009790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2005] [Revised: 11/24/2005] [Accepted: 11/24/2005] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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A succession of antimalarial drugs has been deployed to treat human falciparum malaria but each has, in turn, been nullified by the spread of drug resistance. The consensus view has always been that, once present, resistance will inevitably rapidly increase to 100%. However, recent field evidence has shown this is not inevitable, and that drug resistance may initially spread and then stabilize at relatively low frequencies. It is proposed that intense competition between separate malaria clones co-infecting the same human can generate complex dynamics capable of explaining this observation. Standard population genetic analysis confirms this assertion. The dynamics underlying the evolution of antimalarial resistance may therefore be much more complex than previously realized, and can resolve the apparent paradox between field data and the underlying theory of the evolution of resistance. This explanation is novel and the results are equally applicable to other parasitic species where multiple infections of the same host are common.
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- I M Hastings
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.
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Portela C, Afonso CMM, Pinto MMM, Ramos MJ. Computational studies of new potential antimalarial compounds--stereoelectronic complementarity with the receptor. J Comput Aided Mol Des 2004; 17:583-95. [PMID: 14713190 DOI: 10.1023/b:jcam.0000005754.24588.a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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One of the most important pharmacological mechanisms of antimalarial action is the inhibition of the aggregation of hematin into hemozoin. We present a group of new potential antimalarial molecules for which we have performed a DFT study of their stereoelectronic properties. Additionally, the same calculations were carried out for the two putative drug receptors involved in the referred activity, i.e., hematin mu-oxo dimer and hemozoin. A complementarity between the structural and electronic profiles of the planned molecules and the receptors can be observed. A docking study of the new compounds in relation to the two putative receptors is also presented, providing a correlation with the defined electrostatic complementarity.
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- César Portela
- Centro de Estudos de Química Orgânica, Fitoquímica e Farmacologia da Universidade do Porto--Faculdade de Farmácia, Rua Aníbal Cunha, 164, 4050-047 Porto, Portugal
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Hastings IM, Watkins WM, White NJ. The evolution of drug-resistant malaria: the role of drug elimination half-life. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2002; 357:505-19. [PMID: 12028788 PMCID: PMC1692966 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2001.1036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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This paper seeks to define and quantify the influence of drug elimination half-life on the evolution of antimalarial drug resistance. There are assumed to be three general classes of susceptibility of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum to a drug: Res0, the original, susceptible wildtype; Res1, a group of intermediate levels of susceptibility that are more tolerant of the drug but still cleared by treatment; and Res2, which is completely resistant to the drug. Res1 and Res2 resistance both evolve much faster if the antimalarial drug has a long half-life. We show that previous models have significantly underestimated the rate of evolution of Res2 resistance by omitting the effects of drug half-life. The methodology has been extended to investigate (i) the effects of using drugs in combination, particularly when the components have differing half-lives, and (ii) the specific example of the development of resistance to the antimalarial pyrimethamine-sulphadoxine. An important detail of the model is the development of drug resistance in two separate phases. In phase A, Res1 is spreading and replacing the original sensitive forms while Res2 remains at a low level. Phase B starts once parasites are selected that can escape drug action (Res1 genotypes with borderline chemosensitivity, and Res2): these parasites are rapidly selected, a process that leads to widespread clinical failure. Drug treatment is clinically successful during phase A, and health workers may be unaware of the substantial changes in parasite population genetic structure that predicate the onset of phase B. Surveillance programs are essential, following the introduction of a new drug, to monitor effectively changes in treatment efficacy and thus provide advance warning of drug failure. The model is also applicable to the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria: in particular, the need for these models to incorporate drug pharmacokinetics to avoid potentially large errors in their predictions.
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- Ian M Hastings
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.
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Mathematical models of the evolution of drug resistance in infectious diseases are predominantly concentrated in three main areas: antimalarial, antibiotic and anthelmintic resistance. There appears to be little or no cross-reference between them. This literature was examined to identify factors that influence the evolution of drug resistance irrespective of the species and drug under study. The aim is to provide non-technical readers with a basic qualitative understanding of the issues and pitfalls involved in designing drug treatment regimens to minimize the evolution of resistance. The principal factors determining the rate at which resistance evolves appear to be (i) the starting frequency of resistance, (ii) the level and pattern of drug use, (iii) the drug's pharmacokinetic properties, (iv) the number of genes required to encode resistance, (v) the level of sexual recombination in the parasite population, (vi) intrahost dynamics and, in particular, whether 'crowding' effects are present, (vii) the genetic basis of resistance and (viii) the number of individual parasites in an infection. The relative importance of these factors depends on the biology of the organisms under consideration and external factors such as the extent to which the infrastructure of health care delivery constrains the practicalities of drug regimens.
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- I M Hastings
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
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Malaria remains one of the world's worst health problems with 1.5 to 2.7 million deaths annually; these deaths are primarily among children under 5 years of age and pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. Of significance, more people are dying from malaria today than 30 years ago. This review considers the factors which have contributed to this gloomy picture, including those which relate to the vector, the female anopheline mosquito; to human activity such as creating new mosquito breeding sites, the impact of increased numbers of people, and how their migratory behavior can increase the incidence and spread of malaria; and the problems of drug resistance by the parasites to almost all currently available antimalarial drugs. In a selective manner, this review describes what is being done to ameliorate this situation both in terms of applying existing methods in a useful or even crucial role in control and prevention and in terms of new additions to the antimalarial armory that are being developed. Topics covered include biological control of mosquitoes, the use of insecticide-impregnated bed nets, transgenic mosquitoes manipulated for resistance to malaria parasites, old and new antimalarial drugs, drug resistance and how best to maintain the useful life of antimalarials, immunity to malaria and the search for antimalarial vaccines, and the malaria genome project and the potential benefits to accrue from it.
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- R S Phillips
- Division of Infection and Immunity, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom.
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Hastings IM, D'Alessandro U. Modelling a predictable disaster: the rise and spread of drug-resistantmalaria. PARASITOLOGY TODAY (PERSONAL ED.) 2000; 16:340-7. [PMID: 10900482 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-4758(00)01707-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The evolution of drug-resistant malaria is one of the most important factors thwarting the development of effective malaria disease control. Several mathematical models have been developed to try and understand the dynamics of this process and how it can be slowed or even avoided. Much of the mathematics describing the evolution of drug resistance in malaria focuses on the derivation and mechanics of the calculations, which can make it inaccessible to experimentalists and field workers. In this article, Ian Hastings and Umberto D'Alessandro describe general model results without recourse to mathematical details, identify the factors that should be considered in the design of drug control programmes, and discuss the crucial parameters that remain unknown and need to be measured in the field or laboratory.
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- I M Hastings
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, UK L3 5QA.
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Smith TG, Kim B, Hong H, Desser SS. Intraerythrocytic development of species of Hepatozoon infecting ranid frogs: evidence for convergence of life cycle characteristics among apicomplexans. J Parasitol 2000; 86:451-8. [PMID: 10864239 DOI: 10.1645/0022-3395(2000)086[0451:idosoh]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Intraerythrocytic development of the adeleorin apicomplexans Hepatozoon clamatae and Hepatozoon catesbianae were investigated in the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana, the green frog, Rana clamitans melanota, and the Northern leopard frog, Rana pipiens. Merozoites emerging from hepatic meronts penetrated erythrocytes and underwent 1-3 rounds of binary fission to produce 2-8 merozoites. Following their release from infected erythrocytes, individual merozoites entered new cells and transformed into gamonts. Although this is the first report of intraerythrocytic development for a fully described species of Hepatozoon, a phylogenetic reanalysis of 11 species of Hepatozoon, 6 species representative of the 5 other hemogregarine taxa, 2 species of dactylosomatids, and 2 species of piroplasms, indicates that asexual reproduction of parasites within blood cells of vertebrates has arisen at least 3 times in the apicomplexan lineage that includes adeleorins and piroplasms. This method of asexual development, which is also observed in species of hemospororin genera such as Plasmodium, is discussed in the context of the evolution of apicomplexan life cycles. In addition to supporting the paraphyly of the genus Hepatozoon determined in an earlier study, this phylogenetic analysis featured a monophyletic group, consisting of the sister taxa Hemolivia and Karyolysus, that was the sister group to a clade consisting of the more derived hemogregarines, the dactylosomatids, and the piroplasms.
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- T G Smith
- Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Welburn SC, Maudlin I. Tsetse-trypanosome interactions: rites of passage. PARASITOLOGY TODAY (PERSONAL ED.) 1999; 15:399-403. [PMID: 10481151 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-4758(99)01512-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Trypanosomes that cause sleeping sickness (Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and T. b. gambiense) are entirely dependent on tsetse for their transmission between hosts, but the flies are not easily infected. This situation has not arisen by chance - the tsetse has evolved an efficient defence system against trypanosome invasion. In this review, Susan Welburn and Ian Maudlin chart the progress of trypanosomes through the fly and identify some of the hazards faced by both parasite and fly that affect vector competence of tsetse.
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- S C Welburn
- Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian, UK EH25 9RG.
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Antimarial drug resistance develops when spontaneously occurring parasite mutants with reduced susceptibility are selected, and are then transmitted. Drugs for which a single point mutation confers a marked reduction in susceptibility are particularly vulnerable. Low clearance and a shallow concentration-effect relationship increase the chance of selection. Use of combinations of antimalarials that do not share the same resistance mechanisms will reduce the chance of selection because the chance of a resistant mutant surviving is the product of the per parasite mutation rates for the individual drugs, multiplied by the number of parasites in an infection that are exposed to the drugs. Artemisinin derivatives are particularly effective combination partners because (i) they are very active antimalarials, producing up to 10,000-fold reductions in parasite biomass per asexual cycle; (ii) they reduce malaria transmissibility; and (iii) no resistance to these drugs has been reported yet. There are good arguments for no longer using antimalarial drugs alone in treatment, and instead always using a combination with artemisinin or one of its derivatives.
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- N White
- Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
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