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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 57(4), 1997, pp. 430-437
Copyright © 1997 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Distinguishing Plasmodium falciparum Treatment Failures from Reinfections by Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism and Polymerase Chain Reaction Genotyping

Colin Ohrt, Laura Mirabelli-Primdahl, Chitraporn Karnasuta, Somsak Chantakulkij AND Kevin C. Kain
Tropical Disease Unit, Department of Medicine, The Toronto Hospital and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Departments of Medicine and Immunology, United States Medical Component, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS), Bangkok, Thailand

The inability to distinguish recrudescent Plasmodium falciparum infections (treatment failures) from reinfections (new infections) is an important impediment to the evaluation of antimalarial treatment regimens. Ten paired primary and recrudescent isolates collected near the Thai-Cambodian border were analyzed by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) genotyping of the genes encoding the following proteins: circumsporozite (CS) protein, erythrocyte binding antigen (EBA)-175, ring-infected erythrocyte surface antigen (RESA), merozoite surface protein-1 (MSP-1), and MSP-2. Both methods demonstrated that the fingerprint pattern of each recrudescent isolate was identical to or was contained within the pattern of the primary isolate. Each recrudescent isolate was unique when compared with the other nine primary isolates. Typing by PCR was more sensitive for the detection of multiclone infections and could be performed with small volumes of whole blood. The PCR genotyping could be a practical method for distinguishing a recrudescent from a new infection when treatment studies are conducted in areas with active malaria transmission.




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