Publication: Role of a Concentration Gradient in Malaria Drug Resistance Evolution: A Combined within- and between-Hosts Modelling Approach
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2020-12-01
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20452322
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Mahidol University
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Scientific Reports. Vol.10, No.1 (2020)
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Suwat Romphosri, Suttikiat Changruenngam, Thanat Chookajorn, Charin Modchang Role of a Concentration Gradient in Malaria Drug Resistance Evolution: A Combined within- and between-Hosts Modelling Approach. Scientific Reports. Vol.10, No.1 (2020). doi:10.1038/s41598-020-63283-2 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/54717
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Role of a Concentration Gradient in Malaria Drug Resistance Evolution: A Combined within- and between-Hosts Modelling Approach
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© 2020, The Author(s). Resistance to antimalarial drugs is currently a growing public health problem, resulting in more cases with treatment failure. Although previous studies suggested that a concentration gradient facilitates the antibiotic resistance evolution in bacteria, no attempt has been made to investigate the roles of a concentration gradient in malaria drug resistance. Unlike the person-to-person mode of transmission of bacteria, the malaria parasites need to switch back and forth between the human and mosquito hosts to complete the life cycle and to spread the resistant alleles. Here we developed a stochastic combined within- and between-hosts evolutionary dynamics model specific to malaria parasites in order to investigate the influence of an antimalarial concentration gradient on the evolutionary dynamics of malaria drug resistance. Every stage of malaria development in both human and mosquito hosts are individually modelled using the tau-leaping algorithm. We found that the concentration gradient can accelerate antimalarial resistance evolution. The gain in resistance evolution was improved by the increase in the parasite mutation rate and the mosquito biting rate. In addition, even though the rate of resistance evolution is not sensitive to the changes in parasite reduction ratios (PRRs) of antimalarial drugs, the probability of finding the antimalarial drug resistant parasites decreases when the PRR increases.