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Trial reportThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2011

Plasmodium falciparum infection during suppressive prophylaxis with mefloquine does not induce an antibody response to merozoite surface protein-1(42).

James E Moon, Gregory A Deye, Lori Miller, Susan Fracisco, R Scott Miller, Donna Tosh, James F Cummings, Colin Ohrt, Alan J Magill

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Trial report in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Mefloquine for preventing malaria during travel to endemic areas.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

James E MoonWalter Reed Army Institute of Research, 503 Robert Grant Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910-7500, USA. james.e.moon@us.army.mil
Gregory A Deye
Lori Miller
Susan Fracisco
R Scott Miller
Donna Tosh
James F Cummings
Colin Ohrt
Alan J Magill
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A sensitive biomarker of malaria infection would obviate the need for placebo control arms in clinical trials of malaria prophylactic drugs. Antibodies to the 42-kDa fragment of merozoite surface protein-1 (MSP1(42)) have been identified as a potential marker of malaria exposure in individuals receiving prophylaxis with mefloquine. We conducted an open-label trial to determine the sensitivity of seroconversion to MSP1(42), defined as a fourfold rise in enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA) titer, among 23 malaria naïve volunteers receiving mefloquine prophylaxis and 6 controls after Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite challenge. All members of the control cohort but none of the mefloquine cohort developed patent parasitemia. Four of six controls but zero of the mefloquine cohort seroconverted to MSP1(42). We conclude that malaria infection during suppressive prophylaxis does not induce antibody response to the blood-stage antigen MSP1(42) in a malaria-naïve study population.

Indexed as

AdultAntibodies, ProtozoanAntigens, ProtozoanAntimalarialsCohort StudiesEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayFemaleHumansMalaria, FalciparumMaleMefloquineProtozoan ProteinsAntibodies, ProtozoanAntigens, ProtozoanAntimalarialsMefloquinemerozoite major surface antigen, PlasmodiumProtozoan Proteins

Identifiers

PMID21540397
PMCPMC3083755
OpenAlexW2144073185

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