Development of a polymorphic strain of Plasmodium vivax in monkeys

J Parasitol. 1992 Jun;78(3):485-91.

Abstract

A strain of Plasmodium vivax from Thailand with a polymorphic repeat unit of the circumsporozoite protein was established in Saimiri sciureus boliviensis and 3 species of Aotus monkeys. All 11 attempts to transmit infection via sporozoite inoculation, 4 times to splenectomized S. sciureus boliviensis, 2 times to splenectomized Aotus nancymai, and 5 times to intact Saimiri monkeys, were successful. Anopheles freeborni, Anopheles stephensi, Anopheles dirus, and Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes were infected by feeding on parasitemic blood from a chimpanzee and an Aotus azarae boliviensis monkey. Our results indicate that this strain may be useful in antisporozoite vaccine trials.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Animals
  • Anopheles
  • Antigens, Protozoan / chemistry*
  • Aotus trivirgatus
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Malaria, Vivax / blood
  • Malaria, Vivax / immunology
  • Malaria, Vivax / parasitology*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Pan troglodytes
  • Plasmodium vivax / chemistry
  • Plasmodium vivax / immunology*
  • Protozoan Proteins*
  • Protozoan Vaccines
  • Saimiri
  • Splenectomy

Substances

  • Antigens, Protozoan
  • Protozoan Proteins
  • Protozoan Vaccines
  • circumsporozoite protein, Protozoan