Abstract:
:Parasite resistance to antimalarial drugs, particularly chloroquine, is the most disturbing problem of malaria chemotherapy. There is evidence that the codon 86Tyr polymorphism of the Pfmdr1 gene is associated with chloroquine resistance in West African Plasmodium falciparum. The association of this and four other coding alterations of the Pfmdr1 gene with chloroquine resistance has not been extensively investigated in South American isolates. In this study, we examined 51 Brazilian P. falciparum isolates for the presence or absence of Asn86Tyr, Asn1042Asp, and Asp1246Tyr polymorphisms. While these isolates were all sensitive in vitro to mefloquine, amodiaquine, and quinine, only 2 (4%) were chloroquine-sensitive. The findings reported here provide the first observations of this kind on a large number of field parasite samples from South America. We show that in vitro chloroquine-resistant and -sensitive strains carry the Asn1042Asp and Asp1246Tyr polymorphisms and provide support for earlier suggestions that Asn86Tyr may be rare or absent in South American P. falciparum.
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Exp Parasitoljournal_title
Experimental parasitologyauthors
Póvoa MM,Adagu IS,Oliveira SG,Machado RL,Miles MA,Warhurst DCdoi
10.1006/expr.1998.4195subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-01-01 00:00:00pages
64-8issue
1eissn
0014-4894issn
1090-2449pii
S0014-4894(98)94195-9journal_volume
88pub_type
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