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Santolalla, M., (2015). Prevalencia de mutaciones en los genes PFDHFR y PFDHPS de Plasmodium falciparum en muestras de pacientes con malaria severa y/o complicada, del banco de muestras biológicas del NAMRU-6 [Tesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/4620
Santolalla, M., Prevalencia de mutaciones en los genes PFDHFR y PFDHPS de Plasmodium falciparum en muestras de pacientes con malaria severa y/o complicada, del banco de muestras biológicas del NAMRU-6 [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/4620
@misc{renati/485683,
title = "Prevalencia de mutaciones en los genes PFDHFR y PFDHPS de Plasmodium falciparum en muestras de pacientes con malaria severa y/o complicada, del banco de muestras biológicas del NAMRU-6",
author = "Santolalla Robles, Meddly Leslye",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos",
year = "2015"
}
--- Introduction: Malaria represents a medical emergency because it may rapidly progress to complication and death without prompt and appropriate treatment. Severe and/or complicated malaria (SCM) is almost exclusively caused by Plasmodium falciparum. One of the risk factors associated with SCM is an inappropriate treatment of the noncomplicated malaria (NCM). Objectives: We genotyped the dihydrofolate reductase (Pfdhfr) and dihydropteroate synthase (Pfdhps) genes from 60 SCM patients. Resistance to SP in P. falciparum is caused mainly by specific mutations at those genes. Study design: SCM patients of this study were enrolled during the malaria outbreak in 1998, when sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine (SP) was the first line of treatment. Material and methods: We used a Sanger sequencing approach for the identification of polymorphisms at Pfdhfr gene codons, and in the case of Pfdhps gene we used a PCRRFLP and PCR allele-specific methodology. Results: We found that 84% of samples harbored a quadruple mutant genotype N51I/S108N/I164L/insertion Bolivia repeat, and the left 16% of the sample contained an infection with a simple mutant genotype (S108N). Regarding the Pfdhps gene, we found four genotypes, the triple mutant genotype A437G/K540E/A581G was the more frequent (78%). Conclusions: We observed that the mutations I164L and K540E, known as highly predictor to SP resistance, in this group of patients with SCM were twice of frequency of the mutations from patients with NCM from published reports, also in the same area and period of study.
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