Point mutations in the dihydrofolate reductase and dihydropteroate synthetase genes and in vitro susceptibility to pyrimethamine and cycloguanil of Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Papua New Guinea
- Author(s)
- Reeder, JC; Rieckmann, KH; Genton, B; Lorry, K; Wines, B; Cowman, AF;
- Details
- Publication Year 1996-08-01,Volume 55,Issue #2,Page 209-213
- Journal Title
- AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE
- Publication Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- Plasmodium falciparum isolates from 24 Papua New Guinean patients with symptomatic malaria were tested for susceptibility to pyrimethamine and cycloguanil. Thirteen isolates were sensitive to both agents and the remainder exhibited varying degrees of resistance. No isolates were found to be resistant to one agent yet sensitive to the ether and a positive correlation suggesting cross-resistance was found. Parasite DNA extracted from the patients' stained blood slides was amplified and sequenced to examine point mutations in the dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) and dihydropteroate synthetase genes (DHPS) associated with antifolate resistance. All resistant isolates possessed mutations in the DHFR gene at codon 108, the majority changing from Ser to Asn, but one isolate from Ser to Thr, a change not previously reported in field isolates. A second mutation of the DHFR gene at Cys-59 to Arg was present in isolates with higher level resistance, but not exclusively so. Sequencing the DHPS gene, as a predictor of sulfadoxine resistance, revealed only one example that was different from DHPS alleles of sensitive isolates.
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- AMER SOC TROP MED & HYGIENE
- Keywords
- THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE GENE; EAST SEPIK PROVINCE; INVITRO MICROTECHNIQUE; MOLECULAR-BASIS; VACCINE TRIALS; WOSERA AREA; RESISTANCE; MALARIA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; SULFADOXINE
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