Publication: Plasmodium falciparum field isolates from areas of repeated emergence of drug resistant malaria show no evidence of hypermutator phenotype
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2015-03-01
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15677257
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15671348
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Mahidol University
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Infection, Genetics and Evolution. Vol.30, (2015), 318-322
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Tyler S. Brown, Christopher G. Jacob, Joana C. Silva, Shannon Takala-Harrison, Abdoulaye Djimdé, Arjen M. Dondorp, Mark Fukuda, Harald Noedl, Myaing Myaing Nyunt, Myat Phone Kyaw, Mayfong Mayxay, Tran Tinh Hien, Christopher V. Plowe, Michael P. Cummings Plasmodium falciparum field isolates from areas of repeated emergence of drug resistant malaria show no evidence of hypermutator phenotype. Infection, Genetics and Evolution. Vol.30, (2015), 318-322. doi:10.1016/j.meegid.2014.12.010 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/35199
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Plasmodium falciparum field isolates from areas of repeated emergence of drug resistant malaria show no evidence of hypermutator phenotype
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University of Bamako Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Odonto-Stomatology
Mahidol University
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Medizinische Universitat Wien
Mahosot Hospital
University of Health Sciences
Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Thailand
University of Maryland
Department of Medical Research (Lower Myanmar)
University of Oxford
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Mahidol University
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Medizinische Universitat Wien
Mahosot Hospital
University of Health Sciences
Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Thailand
University of Maryland
Department of Medical Research (Lower Myanmar)
University of Oxford
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Abstract
© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Multiple transcontinental waves of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum have originated in Southeast Asia before spreading westward, first into the rest of Asia and then to sub-Saharan Africa. In vitro studies have suggested that hypermutator P. falciparum parasites may exist in Southeast Asia and that an increased rate of acquisition of new mutations in these parasites may explain the repeated emergence of drug resistance in Southeast Asia. This study is the first to test the hypermutator hypothesis using field isolates. Using genome-wide SNP data from human P. falciparum infections in Southeast Asia and West Africa and a test for relative rate differences we found no evidence of increased relative substitution rates in P. falciparum isolates from Southeast Asia. Instead, we found significantly increased substitution rates in Mali and Bangladesh populations relative to those in populations from Southeast Asia. Additionally we found no association between increased relative substitution rates and parasite clearance following treatment with artemisinin derivatives.