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Genetic diversity and allelic variation in MSP3α gene of paired clinical Plasmodium vivax isolates from Delhi, India.

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BACKGROUND:Plasmodium vivax malaria accounts for 80% of the malaria cases in Delhi, India. The gene merozoite surface protein 3 alpha (MSP3α) is highly polymorphic and has been used as marker in many P. vivax population studies. METHODS:MSP3α has been used to assess the genetic diversity of P. vivax samples from Delhi (India) having more than one malaria episode (s) i.e. clinically identified relapse cases using PCR-RFLP and sequencing. RESULTS:Three major genotypes 2.0 kb (A), 1.4 kb (B) and 1.2 kb (C) were amplified from 72 isolates with frequencies of 72.2%, 19.44% and 9.72% respectively. One sample out of 72 showed mixed infection having both A and B type genotypes. 82.05% patients showed same genotype while only 17.94% patients showed different genotypes after subsequent malaria episodes. 18 different genotypes with Alu I and 35 with Hha I were identified among 72 samples analyzed by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). 18 Pvmsp3α nucleotide sequences were analyzed and it did not reveal any distinct intragenic differences within sequences of the same type, however, allelic diversity among the three types (Π = 0.029703) was observed. Phylogenetic analysis showed allelic family types A, B and C were not clustered but distributed in different branches. The results indicate that the P. vivax parasite population is highly diverse in Delhi, India. A large number of amino acid substitutions were found at the locus of the isolates when compared with the Belem Strain (Π = 0.030528). The substantial sequence diversity is largely restricted to certain domains of encoded protein. Analysis of synonymous and nonsynonymous substitutions suggested that different selection forces were operating on different regions of the protein molecule. CONCLUSION:We propose that genotyping of the PvMSP-3α gene as one of the molecular tools for differentiating relapse from new infection in epidemiological settings. The analyses of sequence polymorphism in PvMSP-3α gene enable it as potential candidate for inclusion in a P.vivax vaccine research.

journal_name

J Infect Public Health

journal_title

Journal of infection and public health

authors

Kaul A,Bali P,Anwar S,Sharma AK,Gupta BK,Singh OP,Adak T,Sohail M

doi

10.1016/j.jiph.2019.01.068

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-01-01 00:00:00

pages

576-584

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eissn

1876-0341

issn

1876-035X

pii

S1876-0341(19)30070-X

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Genetic diversity and allelic variation in MSP3α gene of paired clinical Plasmodium vivax isolates from Delhi, India.