Department of Epidemiology, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, National Centre for Research, Khartoum, Sudan.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2011 Nov;55(11):5408-11. doi: 10.1128/AAC.05102-11. Epub 2011 Sep 6.
Molecular markers for surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum resistance to current antimalarials are sorely needed. A 28-day efficacy study of artemether-lumefantrine in eastern Sudan identified 5 treatment failures among 100 evaluable patients; 9 further individuals were parasite positive by PCR during follow-up. Polymorphisms in pfatpase6 and pfmdr1 were evaluated by DNA sequencing. One individual carried parasites with a novel pfmdr1 polymorphism (F1044L). pfmdr1 gene amplification in parasites prior to treatment occurred in three individuals who had recurrent infection during follow-up.
迫切需要用于监测恶性疟原虫对现有抗疟药物耐药性的分子标志物。在苏丹东部进行的为期 28 天的青蒿琥酯-咯萘啶疗效研究中,在 100 例可评估的患者中发现 5 例治疗失败;9 例进一步的个体在随访期间通过 PCR 检测到寄生虫阳性。通过 DNA 测序评估 pfATPase6 和 pfmdr1 的多态性。一名个体携带具有新型 pfmdr1 多态性(F1044L)的寄生虫。在治疗前,有 3 例个体的 pfmdr1 基因在寄生虫中扩增,他们在随访期间出现了复发性感染。