Drug resistance and vaccine target surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum using nanopore sequencing in Ghana

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Malaria results in over 600,000 deaths annually, with the highest burden of deaths in young children living in sub-Saharan Africa. Molecular surveillance can provide important information for malaria control policies, including detection of antimalarial drug resistance. However, genome sequencing capacity in malaria-endemic countries is limited. We designed and implemented an end-to-end workflow to detect Plasmodium falciparum antimalarial resistance markers and diversity in the vaccine target circumsporozoite protein (csp) using nanopore sequencing in Ghana. We analysed 196 clinical samples and showed that our method is rapid, robust, accurate and straightforward to implement. Importantly, our method could be applied to dried blood spot samples, which are readily collected in endemic settings. We report that P. falciparum parasites in Ghana are mostly susceptible to chloroquine, with persistent sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance and no evidence of artemisinin resistance. Multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms were identified in csp, but their significance is uncertain. Our study demonstrates the feasibility of nanopore sequencing for malaria genomic surveillance in endemic countries.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

Nature microbiology - 8(2023), 12 vom: 24. Dez., Seite 2365-2377

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Girgis, Sophia T [VerfasserIn]
Adika, Edem [VerfasserIn]
Nenyewodey, Felix E [VerfasserIn]
Senoo Jnr, Dodzi K [VerfasserIn]
Ngoi, Joyce M [VerfasserIn]
Bandoh, Kukua [VerfasserIn]
Lorenz, Oliver [VerfasserIn]
van de Steeg, Guus [VerfasserIn]
Harrott, Alexandria J R [VerfasserIn]
Nsoh, Sebastian [VerfasserIn]
Judge, Kim [VerfasserIn]
Pearson, Richard D [VerfasserIn]
Almagro-Garcia, Jacob [VerfasserIn]
Saiid, Samirah [VerfasserIn]
Atampah, Solomon [VerfasserIn]
Amoako, Enock K [VerfasserIn]
Morang'a, Collins M [VerfasserIn]
Asoala, Victor [VerfasserIn]
Adjei, Elrmion S [VerfasserIn]
Burden, William [VerfasserIn]
Roberts-Sengier, William [VerfasserIn]
Drury, Eleanor [VerfasserIn]
Pierce, Megan L [VerfasserIn]
Gonçalves, Sónia [VerfasserIn]
Awandare, Gordon A [VerfasserIn]
Kwiatkowski, Dominic P [VerfasserIn]
Amenga-Etego, Lucas N [VerfasserIn]
Hamilton, William L [VerfasserIn]

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Antimalarials
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Date Completed 01.12.2023

Date Revised 04.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41564-023-01516-6

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364879645