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Elimination of Plasmodium falciparum in an area of multi-drug resistance

Overview of attention for article published in Malaria Journal, August 2015
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Title
Elimination of Plasmodium falciparum in an area of multi-drug resistance
Published in
Malaria Journal, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12936-015-0838-5
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Khin Maung Lwin, Mallika Imwong, Preyanan Suangkanarat, Atthanee Jeeyapant, Benchawan Vihokhern, Klanarong Wongsaen, Georges Snounou, Lilly Keereecharoen, Nicholas J White, Francois Nosten

Abstract

Resistance to the artemisinin derivatives in Plasmodium falciparum has emerged in Cambodia and is now spreading throughout South-East Asia. The rapid elimination of P. falciparum seems to be the only viable option to avoid a public health disaster but this is difficult because even in low transmission settings many residents have asymptomatic parasitaemias. In response to a large number of malaria cases reported in three remote villages on the Thai-Myanmar border where malaria is endemic and the disease is seasonal, surveys were conducted using an ultra-sensitive qPCR assay (LOD 22 parasites per mL). In one of the villages where it was feasible, mass anti-malarial drug administration was proposed to the population as a potential solution, and this was adopted. In the three villages 204/356 (57.3 %), 212/385 (55.1 %) and 195/286 (68.2 %) of the resident populations were positive by qPCR (approximately one-third P. falciparum and two-thirds P. vivax). Of those positive for P. falciparum 62 % carried single point mutations in the P. falciparum kelch protein (a marker of artemisinin resistance). In one of the villages 217 of 674 inhabitants received at least one dose of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine chemoprevention in June 2012, 155 (71.4 %) received two consecutive months, and 98 (45.2 %) received three treatment doses. The chemoprevention was generally well tolerated. The sub-microscopic reservoir of P. falciparum malaria was eliminated during the six-month follow-up period (prevalence fell from 7 to 0 %); P. vivax malaria persisted (prevalence fell from 35 to 8 %). From June to October 2012 (rainy season) the number of clinical episodes of P. falciparum was six times lower (46), than during the same period in the previous year (290). Mass drug administration with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine may be an effective strategy to eliminate P. falciparum rapidly where multi-drug resistance is present.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 2 2%
Vietnam 1 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Thailand 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 110 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 38 32%
Student > Master 16 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 9%
Student > Bachelor 8 7%
Other 7 6%
Other 17 15%
Unknown 20 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 32 27%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 22 19%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 9%
Social Sciences 8 7%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 4 3%
Other 16 14%
Unknown 24 21%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 February 2016.
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#2,165,642
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Outputs from Malaria Journal
#419
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Outputs of similar age
#25,742
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Outputs of similar age from Malaria Journal
#7
of 122 outputs
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