Development and evaluation of a new Plasmodium falciparum 3D7 blood stage malaria cell bank for use in malaria volunteer infection studies

Autor: Stephen D. Woolley, Melissa Fernandez, Maria Rebelo, Stacey A. Llewellyn, Louise Marquart, Fiona H. Amante, Helen E. Jennings, Rebecca Webster, Katharine Trenholme, Stephan Chalon, Joerg J. Moehrle, James S. McCarthy, Bridget E. Barber
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Malaria Journal, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1475-2875
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-021-03627-z
Popis: Abstract Background New anti-malarial therapeutics are required to counter the threat of increasing drug resistance. Malaria volunteer infection studies (VIS), particularly the induced blood stage malaria (IBSM) model, play a key role in accelerating anti-malarial drug development. Supply of the reference 3D7-V2 Plasmodium falciparum malaria cell bank (MCB) is limited. This study aimed to develop a new MCB, and compare the safety and infectivity of this MCB with the existing 3D7-V2 MCB, in a VIS. A second bank (3D7-V1) developed in 1995 was also evaluated. Methods The 3D7-V2 MCB was expanded in vitro using a bioreactor to produce a new MCB designated 3D7-MBE-008. This bank and 3D7-V1 were then evaluated using the IBSM model, where healthy participants were intravenously inoculated with blood-stage parasites. Participants were treated with artemether-lumefantrine when parasitaemia or clinical thresholds were reached. Safety, infectivity and parasite growth and clearance were evaluated. Results The in vitro expansion of 3D7-V2 produced 200 vials of the 3D7-MBE-008 MCB, with a parasitaemia of 4.3%. This compares to 0.1% in the existing 3D7-V2 MCB, and
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