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Hernando A. del Portillo Michael Lanzer Sergio Rodriguez-Malaga Fidel Zavala Carmen Fernandez-Becerra 《International journal for parasitology》2004,34(13-14):1547
It is generally accepted that Plasmodium vivax, the most widely distributed human malaria, does not cytoadhere in the deep capillaries of inner organs and thus this malaria parasite must have evolved splenic evasion mechanism in addition to sequestration. The spleen is a uniquely adapted lymphoid organ whose central function is the selective clearance of cell and other particles from the blood, and microbes including malaria. Splenomegaly is a hallmark of malaria and no other disease seems to exacerbate this organ as this disease does. Besides this major selective clearance function however, the spleen is also an erythropoietic organ which, under stress conditions, can be responsible for close to 40% of the RBC populations. Data obtained in experimental infections of human patients with P. vivax showed that anaemia is associated with acute and chronic infections and it has been postulated that the continued parasitemia might have been sufficient to infect and destroy most circulating reticulocytes. We review here the basis of our current knowledge of variant genes in P. vivax and the structure and function of the spleen during malaria. Based on this data, we propose that P. vivax specifically adhere to barrier cells in the human spleen allowing the parasite to escape spleen-clearance while favouring the release of merozoites in an environment where reticulocytes, the predominant, if not exclusive, host cell of P. vivax, are stored before their release into circulation to compensate for the anaemia associated with vivax malaria. 相似文献
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Oliveira Tatiane R Fernandez-Becerra Carmen Jimenez Maria Carolina S Del Portillo Hernando A Soares Irene S 《Malaria journal》2006,5(1):1-10
Background
Chloroquine (CQ) or sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) monotherapy for Plasmodium falciparum often leads to therapeutic failure in Indonesia. Combining CQ with other drugs, like SP, may provide an affordable, available and effective option where artemisinin-combined therapies (ACT) are not licensed or are unavailable.Methods
This study compared CQ (n = 29 subjects) versus CQ + SP (with or without primaquine; n = 88) for clinical and parasitological cure of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in the Menoreh Hills region of southern Central Java, Indonesia. Gametocyte clearance rates were measured with (n = 56 subjects) and without (n = 61) a single 45 mg dose of primaquine (PQ).Results
After 28 days, 58% of subjects receiving CQ had cleared parasitaemia and remained aparasitaemic, compared to 94% receiving CQ combined with SP (p < 0.001). Msp-2 genotyping permitted reinfection-adjusted cure rates for CQ and CQ combined with SP, 70% and 99%, respectively (p = 0.0006).Conclusion
Primaquine exerted no apparent affect on cure of asexual stage parasitaemia, but clearly accelerated clearance of gametocytes. CQ combined with SP was safe and well-tolerated with superior efficacy over CQ for P. falciparum parasitaemia in this study. 相似文献3.
Fernandez-Becerra C Pein O de Oliveira TR Yamamoto MM Cassola AC Rocha C Soares IS de Bragança Pereira CA del Portillo HA 《Molecular microbiology》2005,58(3):648-658
Plasmodium vivax is the most widely distributed human malaria parasite and responsible for 70-80 million clinical cases each year and a large socio-economical burden. The sequence of a chromosome end from P. vivax revealed the existence of a multigene superfamily, termed vir (P. vivax variant antigens), that can be subdivided into different subfamilies based on sequence similarity analysis and which represents close to 10-20% of the coding sequences of the parasite. Here we show that there is a vast repertoire of vir genes abundantly expressed in isolates obtained from human patients, that different vir gene subfamilies are transcribed in mature asexual blood stages by individual parasites, that VIR proteins are not clonally expressed and that there is no significant difference in the recognition of VIR-tags by immune sera of first-infected patients compared with sera of multiple-infected patients. These data provide to our knowledge the first comprehensive study of vir genes and their encoding variant proteins in natural infections and thus constitute a baseline for future studies of this multigene superfamily. Moreover, whereas our data are consistent with a major role of vir genes in natural infections, they are inconsistent with a predominant role in the strict sense of antigenic variation. 相似文献
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Costa FT Lopes SC Ferrer M Leite JA Martin-Jaular L Bernabeu M Nogueira PA Mourão MP Fernandez-Becerra C Lacerda MV del Portillo H 《Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz》2011,106(Z1):79-84
It is generally accepted that Plasmodium vivax, the most widely distributed human malaria parasite, causes mild disease and that this species does not sequester in the deep capillaries of internal organs. Recent evidence, however, has demonstrated that there is severe disease, sometimes resulting in death, exclusively associated with P. vivax and that P. vivax-infected reticulocytes are able to cytoadhere in vitro to different endothelial cells and placental cryosections. Here, we review the scarce and preliminary data on cytoadherence in P. vivax, reinforcing the importance of this phenomenon in this species and highlighting the avenues that it opens for our understanding of the pathology of this neglected human malaria parasite. 相似文献
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Carmen Fernandez-Becerra Joel Lelievre Mireia Ferrer Nuria Anton Richard Thomson Cristina Peligero Maria Jesus Almela Marcus VG Lacerda Esperanza Herreros Hernando A del Portillo 《Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz》2013,108(6):801-803
The production of fully functional human red cells in vitro from haematopoietic
stem cells (hHSCs) has been successfully achieved. Recently, the use of hHSCs
from cord blood represented a major improvement to develop the continuous
culture system for Plasmodium vivax. Here, we demonstrated that
CD34+hHSCs from peripheral blood and bone marrow can be expanded and
differentiated to reticulocytes using a novel stromal cell. Moreover, these
reticulocytes and mature red blood cells express surface markers for entrance of
malaria parasites contain adult haemoglobin and are also permissive to invasion
by P. vivax and Plasmodium falciparum
parasites. 相似文献
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Bernabeu M Lopez FJ Ferrer M Martin-Jaular L Razaname A Corradin G Maier AG Del Portillo HA Fernandez-Becerra C 《Cellular microbiology》2012,14(3):386-400
The subcellular localization and function of variant subtelomeric multigene families in Plasmodium vivax remain vastly unknown. Among them, the vir superfamily is putatively involved in antigenic variation and in mediating adherence to endothelial receptors. In the absence of a continuous in vitro culture system for P. vivax, we have generated P. falciparum transgenic lines expressing VIR proteins to infer location and function. We chose three proteins pertaining to subfamilies A (VIR17), C (VIR14) and D (VIR10), with domains and secondary structures that predictably traffic these proteins to different subcellular compartments. Here, we showed that VIR17 remained inside the parasite and around merozoites, whereas VIR14 and VIR10 were exported to the membrane of infected red blood cells (iRBCs) in an apparent independent pathway of Maurer's clefts. Remarkably, VIR14 was exposed at the surface of iRBCs and mediated adherence to different endothelial receptors expressed in CHO cells under static conditions. Under physiological flow conditions, however, cytoadherence was only observed to ICAM-1, which was the only receptor whose adherence was specifically and significantly inhibited by antibodies against conserved motifs of VIR proteins. Immunofluorescence studies using these antibodies also showed different subcellular localizations of VIR proteins in P. vivax-infected reticulocytes from natural infections. These data suggest that VIR proteins are trafficked to different cellular compartments and functionally demonstrates that VIR proteins can specifically mediate cytoadherence to the ICAM-1 endothelial receptor. 相似文献
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