Drug Resistance and Diagnostics, Australian Army Malaria Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2012 Jan;56(1):428-31. doi: 10.1128/AAC.05456-11. Epub 2011 Oct 10.
The appearance of Plasmodium falciparum parasites with decreased in vivo sensitivity but no measurable in vitro resistance to artemisinin has raised the urgent need to characterize the artemisinin resistance phenotype. Changes in the temporary growth arrest (dormancy) profile of parasites may be one aspect of this phenotype. In this study, we investigated the link between dormancy and resistance, using artelinic acid (AL)-resistant parasites. Our results demonstrate that the AL resistance phenotype has (i) decreased sensitivity of mature-stage parasites, (ii) decreased sensitivity of the ring stage to the induction of dormancy, and (iii) a faster recovery from dormancy.
疟原虫寄生虫外观出现对青蒿素的体内敏感性降低,但体外耐药性无法测量,这就迫切需要对青蒿素耐药表型进行特征描述。寄生虫的临时生长停滞(休眠)状态的变化可能是该表型的一个方面。在这项研究中,我们使用 artelinic 酸(AL)耐药寄生虫来研究休眠与耐药之间的联系。我们的研究结果表明,AL 耐药表型具有:(i)成熟阶段寄生虫的敏感性降低;(ii)环状阶段对休眠诱导的敏感性降低;以及(iii)从休眠中更快地恢复。