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ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2023

Creating and Validating Ligase Primers to Detect Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Associated with Atovaquone Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum.

Muharib Alruwaili, Rubayet Elahi, Donelly van Schalkwyk, Colin Sutherland, Theresa Shapiro, Sean Prigge, David Sullivan

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Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Muharib AlruwailiDepartment of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Rubayet ElahiDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
Donelly van SchalkwykDepartment of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Colin SutherlandDepartment of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Theresa ShapiroDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
Sean PriggeDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
David SullivanDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
Johns Hopkins University · USLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine · GBAl Jouf University · SA

Funding

Vaccine Response and Immunotherapeutics SWGP30AI094189 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Richard E. Chaisson · 2012 to 2026
$67.0M
Medical Research CouncilNIAID NIH HHS P30 AI094189
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Atovaquone-proguanil is one of the most commonly prescribed malaria prophylactic drugs. However, sporadic mutations conferring resistance to atovaquone have been detected in recent years associated with single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the Plasmodium falciparum cytochrome b ( pfcytb) gene. Monitoring polymorphisms linked with resistance is essential in assessing the prevalence of drug resistance and may help in designing strategies for malaria control. Several approaches have been used to study genetic polymorphisms associated with antimalarial drug resistance. However, they either lack high throughput capacity or are expensive in time or money. Ligase detection reaction fluorescent microsphere assay (LDR-FMA) provides a high-throughput method to detect genetic polymorphisms in P. falciparum. In this study, we have created primers to detect SNPs associated with clinically relevant atovaquone resistance using LDR-FMA and validated them in clinical samples. Four SNPs from pfcytb gene were analyzed using LDR-FMA. The results were 100% consistent with DNA sequence data, indicating that this method has potential as a tool to detect genetic polymorphisms associated with atovaquone resistance in P. falciparum.

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AntimalarialsMalaria, FalciparumAtovaquoneCytochromes bDNA PrimersDrug CombinationsDrug ResistanceHumansLigasesPlasmodium falciparumPolymorphism, Single NucleotideProguanilAntimalarialsAtovaquoneCytochromes bDNA PrimersDrug CombinationsLigasesProguanil

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PMID36878214
PMCPMC10077009
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