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Clinical implications of a gradual dormancy concept in malaria.

Abstract：

:Malaria recurrences after an initially successful therapy and malarial fever occurring a long time after infection are well-known problems in malariology. Currently, two distinct types of malaria recurrences are defined: recrudescence and relapse. A recrudescence is thought to originate from circulating Plasmodium blood stages which do not cause fever before a certain level of a microscopically detectable parasitemia is reached. Contrary, a relapse is thought to originate from quiescent intracellular hepatic parasite stages called hypnozoites. Recrudescences would typically occur in infections due to Plasmodium falciparum. Plasmodium knowlesi, and Plasmodium malariae, whereas relapses would be caused exclusively by Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium ovale. This schematic view is, however, insufficiently supported by experimental evidence. For instance, hypnozoites of P. ovale have never been experimentally documented. On the other hand, the nonfinding of P. malariae hypnozoites turned into the proof for the nonexistence of P. malariae hypnozoites. Clinical relapse-type recurrences have been observed in both P. ovale and P. malariae infections, and decade-long incubation times have also been reported in P. falciparum infections. We propose a gradual hypothesis in accordance with the continuity concept of biological evolution: both, relapse and recrudescence may be potentially caused by all Plasmodium spp. We hypothesize that the difference between the various Plasmodium spp. is quantitative rather than qualitative: there are Plasmodium spp. which frequently cause relapses such as P. vivax, particularly the P.v. Chesson strain, species which cause relapses less frequently, such as P. ovale and sometimes P. malariae, and species which may exceptionally cause relapses such as P. falciparum. All species may cause recrudescences. As clinical consequences, we propose that 8-aminquinolines may be considered in a relapse-type recrudescence regardless of the causal Plasmodium sp., whereas primaquine relapse prevention might not be routinely indicated in malaria due to P. ovale.

journal_name

Parasitol Res

journal_title

Parasitology research

authors

Richter J,Franken G,Holtfreter MC,Walter S,Labisch A,Mehlhorn H

doi

10.1007/s00436-016-5043-0

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-06-01 00:00:00

pages

2139-48

issue

eissn

0932-0113

issn

1432-1955

pii

10.1007/s00436-016-5043-0

journal_volume

115

pub_type

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Clinical implications of a gradual dormancy concept in malaria.