Nationwide spatiotemporal drug resistance genetic profiling from over three decades in Indian Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax isolates

  04 September 2023

Drug resistance is a serious impediment to efficient control and elimination of malaria in endemic areas.

This study aimed at analysing the genetic profile of molecular drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax parasites from India over a ~ 30-year period (1993–2019). Blood samples of P. falciparum and/or P. vivax-infected patients were collected from 14 regions across India. Plasmodial genome was extracted and used for PCR amplification and sequencing of drug resistance genes in P. falciparum (crtdhpsdhfrmdr1k13) and P. vivax (crt-odhpsdhfrmdr1k12) field isolates.

These findings support continuous surveillance and characterization of P. falciparum and P. vivax populations as proxy for effectiveness of anti-malarial drugs in India, especially for independent emergence of artemisinin drug resistance as recently seen in Africa.

Further reading: Malaria Journal
Author(s): Loick P. Kojom Foko, Geetika Narang, Jahnvi Jakhan, Suman Tamang, Amit Moun & Vineeta Singh
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