Improved Detectability of Plasmodium falciparum Clones with Repeated Sampling in Incident and Chronic Infections in Burkina Faso.

Aissata Barry; Shehu S Awandu; Alfred B Tiono; Lynn Grignard ORCID logo; Teun Bousema; Katharine A Collins; (2022) Improved Detectability of Plasmodium falciparum Clones with Repeated Sampling in Incident and Chronic Infections in Burkina Faso. American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 106 (2). pp. 664-666. ISSN 0002-9637 DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.21-0493
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We evaluated the detectability of Plasmodium falciparum clones when assessed on 3 consecutive days in incident and chronic infections in naturally exposed children living in an area of intense malaria transmission in Burkina Faso. The median number of clones by merozoite surface protein 2 (MSP2) genotyping was 3 (interquartile range [IQR] 2-5) in incident infections compared with 6 (IQR 4-8) in chronic infections (P < 0.0001). When all clones detected on days 1-3 were considered as true complexity of infection, sampling on day 1 detected only 69.4% (109/157) or 68.3% (228/334) of all clones in incident and chronic infections, respectively. Our findings demonstrate that a large proportion of clones are missed by single time-point sampling. In addition, because of the high complexity of infection early in incident infections, our data suggest many infections may be caused by genetically complex inocula.


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