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Absence of correlation between ex vivo susceptibility to doxycycline and pfteQ–pfmdt gene polymorphism in French Guiana

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Title
Absence of correlation between ex vivo susceptibility to doxycycline and pfteQ–pfmdt gene polymorphism in French Guiana
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Malaria Journal, July 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12936-015-0788-y
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Marie Mura, Sébastien Briolant, Damien Donato, Béatrice Volney, Stéphane Pelleau, Lise Musset, Eric Legrand

Abstract

In French Guiana, doxycycline is used for both chemoprophylaxis and the treatment of malaria. The presence of isolates with reduced ex vivo susceptibility to doxycycline in French Guiana makes it critical to identify any genetic determinants contributing to the chemosusceptibility level of Plasmodium falciparum to doxycycline, such as pfmdt and pftetQ, which were recently identified as potential molecular markers in African isolates. A Bayesian statistical approach was used to define different ex vivo doxycycline phenotypes. The pfmdt and pftetQ gene copy numbers were quantified by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction in 129 P. falciparum isolates collected between 2000 and 2010, and pftetQ, pfrps7, pfssurRNA, and pflsurRNA sequences were analysed after amplification by polymerase chain reaction. PftetQ and pfmdt copy numbers were not associated with reduced susceptibility to doxycycline in P. falciparum within French Guiana. Sequence analysis of the genes revealed five known single nucleotide polymorphisms. Three new SNPs were identified in the apicoplast ribosomal RNA long sub-unit (pflsurRNA): C740T, A1875C and A1875T. These polymorphisms were not associated with reduced chemosusceptibility to doxycycline. The present study does not validate pfmdt and pftetQ genes as molecular markers of decreased susceptibility to doxycycline in P. falciparum isolates in French Guiana.

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United Kingdom 1 8%
Unknown 12 92%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 4 31%
Other 2 15%
Researcher 2 15%
Student > Master 2 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 8%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 2 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 4 31%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 15%
Psychology 2 15%
Computer Science 1 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 8%
Other 1 8%
Unknown 2 15%
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