Correlation between Plasmodium vivax variants in Belém, Pará State, Brazil and symptoms and clearance of parasitaemia

Braz J Infect Dis. 2003 Jun;7(3):175-7. doi: 10.1590/s1413-86702003000300002.

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine how different types of P. vivax affect clinical symptoms and parasitaemia clearance. Blood was collected from individuals from Pará State, Brazil. The patients were treated as chloroquine plus primaquine. P. vivax were typed daily till D7 and again on D30. Now we can confirm a previously reported correlation between P. vivax genotype and response to chloroquine. Clinical symptoms do not allow for objective identification of different P. vivax types in the Brazilian Amazon, since the VK247 and P. vivax-like have only been detected in mixed infections.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antimalarials / therapeutic use*
  • Brazil
  • Chloroquine / therapeutic use*
  • Genetic Variation
  • Genotype
  • Humans
  • Malaria, Vivax / drug therapy
  • Malaria, Vivax / parasitology*
  • Parasitemia / drug therapy*
  • Plasmodium vivax / drug effects
  • Plasmodium vivax / genetics*
  • Primaquine / therapeutic use*

Substances

  • Antimalarials
  • Chloroquine
  • Primaquine