Comparative Efficacies of Artemisinin Combination Therapies in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria and Polymorphism of pfATPase6 , pfcrt , pfdhfr , and pfdhps Genes in Tea Gardens of Jalpaiguri District, India
| Autor: | Krishnangshu Ray, Pratip Kumar Kundu, Madhusudan Das, Pabitra Saha, Dilip K. Bera, Sonali Das, Gaurangadeb Chattopadhyay, Shrabanee Mullick, Swagata Ganguly, Ardhendu Kumar Maji, Asit Biswas, Subhasish Kamal Guha |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
Pharmacology
medicine.medical_specialty biology Sulfadoxine Mefloquine medicine.medical_treatment Plasmodium falciparum Drug resistance medicine.disease biology.organism_classification chemistry.chemical_compound Infectious Diseases chemistry Artesunate Chloroquine Internal medicine medicine Pharmacology (medical) Artemisinin Malaria medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 56:2511-2517 |
| ISSN: | 1098-6596 0066-4804 |
| Popis: | In India, chloroquine has been replaced by a combination of artesunate and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (AS-SP) for uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria. Other available combinations, artemether-lumefantrine (AM-LF) and artesunate-mefloquine (AS-MQ), not included in the national program, are widely used by private practitioners. Little is known about the therapeutic efficacy of these artemisinin combinations and the prevalence of molecular markers associated with antimalarial drug resistance. A total of 157 patients with P. falciparum monoinfection were recruited and randomized into three study groups (AS-SP, AM-LF, and AS-MQ). All patients were followed up for 42 days to study the clinical and parasitological responses according to the WHO protocol (2009). We assessed the polymorphism of the pfATPase6 , pfcrt , pfdhfr , and pfdhps genes by the DNA-sequencing method. The PCR-corrected therapeutic efficacies of AS-SP, AM-LF, and AS-MQ were 90.6% (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.793 to 0.969), 95.9% (95% CI, 0.860 to 0.995), and 100% (95% CI, 0.927 to 1.00), respectively. No specific mutational pattern was observed in the pfATPase6 gene. All isolates had a K76T mutation in the pfcrt gene. In the pfdhfr-pfdhps genotype, quadruple mutation was frequent, and quintuple mutation was documented in 6.3% of P. falciparum isolates. The significant failure rate of AS-SP (9.5%), although within the limit (10%) for drug policy change, was due to SP failure because of prevailing mutations in pfdhfr , I 51 R 59 N 108 , with pfdhps , G 437 and/or E 540 . The efficacy of this ACT needs periodic monitoring. Artemether-lumefantrine and artesunate-mefloquine are effective alternatives to the artesunate-sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine combination. |
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