Bibliographic citations
Salas, C., (2007). Marcadores moleculares asociados a Plasmodium falciparum resistente a sulfadoxina-pirimetamina en las localidades de Caballococha y Padre Cocha, región Loreto, Perú [Tesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/2483
Salas, C., Marcadores moleculares asociados a Plasmodium falciparum resistente a sulfadoxina-pirimetamina en las localidades de Caballococha y Padre Cocha, región Loreto, Perú [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; 2007. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/2483
@misc{renati/490033,
title = "Marcadores moleculares asociados a Plasmodium falciparum resistente a sulfadoxina-pirimetamina en las localidades de Caballococha y Padre Cocha, región Loreto, Perú",
author = "Salas Hermoza, Carola Janette",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos",
year = "2007"
}
-- The objective of this retrospective study was to determine the asociation between point mutations in dihydrofolate reductase (Pfdhfr) and dihydropteroate synthase (Pfdhps) Plasmodium falciparum genes, and clinical outcome of patients with non complicated P.falciparum malaria diagnosis, admitted to a in vivo sulphadoxine-pirymethamine (SP) drug efficacy study conducted in 1999, in two areas of Loreto region. We used allelic specific-nested PCR to analize 86 blood samples collected before SP treatment, and study mutations at codons S108N/T, N51I, C59R, I164L and C50R in Pfdhfr and codons A436G, A437G, K540E, A581G y A613S/T in Pfdhps genes, and found that Infections caused by parasites harbouring 3 mutations in Pfdhfr (108Asn/51Ile/164Leu) and either 2 or 3 mutations in Pfdhps (581Gly/437Gly and 540Glu) called the quintuple and sextuple mutants, respectively, were associated to failure with SP treatment. Logistic regression analysis was used to look for association between the variables, helping to establish the higher the number of mutations in both Pfdhfr and Pfdhps genes, the higher the risk of treatment failures when using SP.The contribution of this study is to provide scientific evidences of the association between both variables in Loreto region supporting its validation and future application in surveillance studies for SP drug resistance, that can be conducted not only in Peru but also in South American countries that share the Amazon basin territory.
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