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We determined the baseline frequency distribution of mutant alleles of genes associated with resistance to chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in Plasmodium falciparum isolates in Bangui, Central African Republic. Mutant alleles of the P. falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter (pfcrt) gene were found in all samples and the frequency of the deduced CIET pfcrt haplotype was high (45%). The most common allele of the P. falciparum multidrug resistance 1 (pfmdr1) gene among the field isolates of P. falciparum was 86Y (21.9%). The 1246Y allele was also common (18.0%). Of the 167 P. falciparum isolates in which the dihydrofolate reductase gene was studied, only 11 carried the wild-type allele (6.6%) whereas many (50.3%) were quadruple mutants (50R, 51I, 59R, 108N). The frequency of the 436A mutant allele of the dihydropteroate synthase gene was high (74.3%), but the frequencies of the 437G (18.6%) and 540E (5.2%) mutant alleles were low. Molecular analyses of antimalarial drug-resistant alleles of P. falciparum isolates in Bangui strongly suggest the widespread distribution of chloroquine and pyrimethamine resistance and to a lesser extent sulfadoxine resistance.
Received May 21, 2005. Accepted for publication September 22, 2005.
Acknowledgments: We thank the patients for participating in the study.
Financial support: This work was supported by the French Government through the FSP/RAI 2001-168 project (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
* Address correspondence to Didier Menard, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, BP 1274, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar. E-mail: dmenard{at}pasteur.mg
Authors’ addresses: Didier Menard, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, BP 1274, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar, Telephone: 261-20-22-412-72, Fax: 261-20-22-415-34, E-mail: dmenard{at}pasteur.mg. Djibrine Djalle, Ferdinand Yapou, Alexandre Manirakiza, and Antoine Talarmin, Institut Pasteur de Bangui, BP 923, Bangui, Central African Republic.
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