Activation of minority-variant Plasmodium vivax hypnozoites following artesunate + amodiaquine treatment in a 23-year old man with relapsing malaria in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

Voahangy Andrianaranjaka; Jessica T Lin; Christopher Golden; Jonathan J Juliano; Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia

Activation of minority-variant Plasmodium vivax hypnozoites following artesunate + amodiaquine treatment in a 23-year old man with relapsing malaria in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

Voahangy Andrianaranjaka ¹ Jessica T Lin ² Christopher Golden ^{3, 4} Jonathan J Juliano ² Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia ^{1, *}

* Corresponding author

1 Institut Pasteur de Madagascar

2 Division of Infectious Diseases

3 Harvard University Center for the Environment

4 MAHERY - Madagascar Health and Environmental Research

Abstract : In endemic areas, Plasmodium vivax relapses are difficult to distinguish from new infections. Genotyping of patients who experience relapse after returning to a malaria-free area can be used to explore the nature of hypnozoite activation and relapse. This paper describes a person who developed P. vivax malaria for the first time after travelling to Boriziny in the malaria endemic coastal area of Madagascar, then suffered two P. vivax relapses 11 weeks and 21 weeks later despite remaining in Antananarivo in the malaria-free central highlands area. He was treated with the combination artesunate + amodiaquine according to the national malaria policy in Madagascar. Genotyping by PCR-RFLP at pvmsp-3alpha as well as pvmsp1 heteroduplex tracking assay (HTA) showed the same dominant genotype at each relapse. Multiple recurring minority variants were also detected at each relapse, highlighting the propensity for multiple hypnozoite clones to activate simultaneously to cause relapse.

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