Protective Effect of Chronic Schistosomiasis in Baboons Coinfected with Schistosoma mansoni and Plasmodium knowlesi.

Autor:	Nyakundi RK; Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.; University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark., Nyamongo O; Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya., Maamun J; Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya., Akinyi M; Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya., Mulei I; Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya., Farah IO; Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya., Blankenship D; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA., Grimberg B; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA., Hau J; University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark., Malhotra I; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA., Ozwara H; Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya., King CL; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA., Kariuki TM; Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya tkariuki@africaonline.co.ke.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Infection and immunity [Infect Immun] 2016 Apr 22; Vol. 84 (5), pp. 1320-1330. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Apr 22 (Print Publication: 2016).
DOI:	10.1128/IAI.00490-15
Abstrakt:	Malaria and schistosomiasis coinfections are common, and chronic schistosomiasis has been implicated in affecting the severity of acute malaria. However, whether it enhances or attenuates malaria has been controversial due the lack of appropriately controlled human studies and relevant animal models. To examine this interaction, we conducted a randomized controlled study using the baboon (Papio anubis) to analyze the effect of chronic schistosomiasis on severe malaria. Two groups of baboons (n = 8 each) and a schistosomiasis control group (n = 3) were infected with 500 Schistosoma mansoni cercariae. At 14 and 15 weeks postinfection, one group was given praziquantel to treat schistosomiasis infection. Four weeks later, the two groups plus a new malaria control group (n = 8) were intravenously inoculated with 10(5) Plasmodium knowlesi parasites and monitored daily for development of severe malaria. A total of 81% of baboons exposed to chronic S. mansoni infection with or without praziquantel treatment survived malaria, compared to only 25% of animals infected with P. knowlesi only (P = 0.01). Schistosome-infected animals also had significantly lower parasite burdens (P = 0.004) than the baboons in the P. knowlesi-only group and were protected from severe anemia. Coinfection was associated with increased spontaneous production of interleukin-6 (IL-6), suggesting an enhanced innate immune response, whereas animals infected with P. knowlesi alone failed to develop mitogen-driven tumor necrosis factor alpha and IL-10, indicating the inability to generate adequate protective and balancing immunoregulatory responses. These results indicate that chronic S. mansoni attenuates the severity of P. knowlesi coinfection in baboons by mechanisms that may enhance innate immunity to malaria. (Copyright © 2016, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.)
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