Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immunomediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2010 Aug;83(2):250-7. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0514.
In 2004, Sudan adopted artesunate + sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine (SP) combination as the first-line drug, in response to the high level of falciparum resistance to antimalarials. In 2007, a molecular study on antimalarial resistance linked genes, pfcrt, pfmdr1, pfdhfr, pfdhps, and pfATPase6, was conducted on 198 isolates from central and eastern Sudan. We observed a high frequency of point mutations at almost all loci analyzed, mainly of pfcrt 76T (72.7%), pfdhfr 51I (75.3%), and pfdhfr 108N (72.7%) alleles. The MARK III in vitro test for chloroquine sensitivity in 45 P. falciparum isolates showed that 37.8% of the isolates were low resistant and 6.7% were fully resistant. This study represents the most recent molecular investigation on antimalarial resistance in this area after the adoption of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), and underlines the importance of the analysis of SP resistance evolution to monitor the efficacy of ACT therapy in endemic areas.
2004 年,苏丹采用青蒿琥酯+磺胺多辛/乙胺嘧啶(SP)组合作为一线药物,以应对恶性疟原虫对抗疟药物的高度耐药性。2007 年,对来自苏丹中部和东部的 198 个分离株进行了抗疟药耐药相关基因(pfcrt、pfmdr1、pfdhfr、pfdhps 和 pfATPase6)的分子研究。我们观察到在几乎所有分析的基因座上都存在高频点突变,主要是 pfcrt 76T(72.7%)、pfdhfr 51I(75.3%)和 pfdhfr 108N(72.7%)等位基因。对 45 株疟原虫分离株进行的氯喹敏感性 MARK III 体外试验表明,37.8%的分离株具有低度耐药性,6.7%的分离株具有完全耐药性。这项研究是在采用青蒿素为基础的联合疗法(ACT)后,对该地区抗疟药耐药性进行的最新分子调查,强调了分析 SP 耐药性演变以监测流行地区 ACT 治疗效果的重要性。