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Erschienen in: Malaria Journal 1/2015

Open Access 01.12.2015 | Research

A molecular survey of acute febrile illnesses reveals Plasmodium vivax infections in Kedougou, southeastern Senegal

verfasst von: Makhtar Niang, Laty Gaye Thiam, Abdourahmane Sow, Cheikh Loucoubar, Ndeye Sakha Bob, Fode Diop, Babacar Diouf, Oumy Niass, Annick Mansourou, Marie Louise Varela, Ronald Perraut, Amadou A Sall, Aissatou Toure-Balde

Erschienen in: Malaria Journal | Ausgabe 1/2015

Abstract

Background

Control efforts towards malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum significantly decreased the incidence of the disease in many endemic countries including Senegal. Surprisingly, in Kedougou (southeastern Senegal) P. falciparum malaria remains highly prevalent and the relative contribution of other Plasmodium species to the global malaria burden is very poorly documented, partly due to the low sensitivity of routine diagnostic tools. Molecular methods offer better estimate of circulating Plasmodium species in a given area. A molecular survey was carried out to document circulating malaria parasites in Kedougou region.

Methods

A total of 263 long-term stored sera obtained from patients presenting with acute febrile illness in Kedougou between July 2009 and July 2013 were used for malaria parasite determination. Sera were withdrawn from a collection established as part of a surveillance programme of arboviruses infections in the region. Plasmodium species were characterized by a nested PCR-based approach targeting the 18S small sub-unit ribosomal RNA genes of Plasmodium spp.

Results

Of the 263 sera screened in this study, Plasmodium genomic DNA was amplifiable by nested PCR from 62.35% (164/263) of samples. P. falciparum accounted for the majority of infections either as single in 85.97% (141/164) of Plasmodium-positive samples or mixed with Plasmodium ovale (11.58%, 19/164) or Plasmodium vivax (1.21%, 2/164). All 19 (11.58%) P. ovale-infected patients were mixed with P. falciparum, while no Plasmodium malariae was detected in this survey. Four patients (2.43%) were found to be infected by P. vivax, two of whom were mixed with P. falciparum. P. vivax infections originated from Bandafassi and Ninefesha villages and concerned patients aged 4, 9, 10, and 15 years old, respectively. DNA sequences alignment and phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that sequences from Kedougou corresponded to P. vivax, therefore confirming the presence of P. vivax infections in Senegal.

Conclusion

The results confirm the high prevalence of P. falciparum in Kedougou and provide the first molecular evidence of P. vivax infections in Senegal. These findings pave the ways for further investigations of P. vivax infections in Senegal and its contribution to the global burden of malaria disease before targeted strategies can be deployed.

Background

Malaria is a major infectious disease and remains the main global cause of death in many endemic areas, including Senegal. Success of malaria control interventions has led to a significant decrease of the disease burden. Between 2000 and 2013 malaria mortality rates decreased by 47% globally, and by 54% in sub-Saharan Africa, the region most affected by the disease [1]. Among the five different species of the genus Plasmodium (Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium ovale, Plasmodium malariae, and Plasmodium knowlesi) known to infect humans [2], P. falciparum remains the deadliest in Africa [1] and has been the major focus of malaria interventions.
With decreases in the P. falciparum burden resulting from successful malaria control interventions [1], attention must be focused on more than 400 million malaria cases due to other parasite species [3]. P. vivax, the most widespread of the Plasmodium species, is fast becoming a recognized cause of different grades of malaria pathologies along with an increasing trend in complicated malaria cases, thus threatening the prospect of malaria elimination in parts of Africa [48].
The presence of P. vivax malaria in sub-Saharan Africa has been largely neglected based on the demonstrated correlation between the lack of expression of the Duffy blood group in sub-Saharan African population and the absence of P. vivax infections [9, 10]. However recent reports of P. vivax infections in Duffy-negative individuals [7, 8, 11], have called for reconsideration of this widely accepted dogma as they strongly indicate that the Duffy status is no longer a barrier to P. vivax infection. Moreover, P. vivax appears to be more frequent in countries where either it was not present or it was not detected by the available techniques in the past, as is the case of some countries of West and Central [4, 68, 11, 12], becoming therefore a major source of concern.
To date, no P. vivax infection has been reported in Senegal despite evidence of its presence in many West African countries [4, 1315]. A molecular survey of circulating malaria parasites species was carried out on samples collected from acute febrile patients as part of a surveillance programme of arboviruses infections in Kedougou region, southeastern Senegal.

Methods

Study site

The study was conducted in the Kedougou region (Figure 1) located in southeast Senegal at the bordering area with Guinea, Mali and Gambia between isohyets 1,200 and 1,300 mm. The climate is Sudano-Guinean with a single rainy season from May to November. The landscape consists of wooded grassland or woodland and dense gallery forest. The fauna is diverse with herbivorous, insectivorous, rodents, and monkeys.
Malaria remains highly prevalent in Kedougou region and transmission is highly seasonal occurring during the rainy season (May–November). In 2014, the Senegalese National Malaria Control Programme reported 25.55% confirmed clinical malaria cases of which 2.73% turned into severe disease [16].

Population and study design

As part of a genetic diversity study of P. falciparum isolates in concurrent malaria-arbovirus infections from patients presenting with acute febrile illness (AFI) in Kedougou, a molecular diagnostic was conducted to discriminate P. falciparum from other Plasmodium species. This revealed a unique case of P. vivax infection in a patient from Ninefesha village. Therefore, additional samples from Ninefesha and nearby villages were retrieved from the sera collection and screened to survey P. vivax infections in Kedougou. A total of 263 sera from patients presenting with AFI between July 2009 and July 2013 in the Kedougou region of Senegal were included in this study. Sera were withdrawn from a collection established as part of a monitoring programme of arboviruses in Kedougou region. AFI was defined as ‘any patient older than 1 year with a fever (temperature >38°C) lasting for less than 2 weeks, exhibiting two or more of the following symptoms: headache, myalgia, eye pain, arthralgia, cough, nausea/vomiting, diarrhoea, jaundice, bleeding and neurological signs’.

Ethical clearance

The study objectives, benefits and risks were explained in French language or local dialects to all participants before inclusion. Written informed consent was obtained from all adults participants and from the parents, or legal guardians of children. The study was examined and approved by the Senegalese National Health Research Committee.

Molecular detection of Plasmodium species

The detection of Plasmodium spp. genomic DNA (gDNA) in frozen serum samples has been reported earlier [17, 18]. Genomic DNA isolation of Plasmodium parasites was performed using QIamp DNA Mini Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) according to manufacturer’s instructions. DNA extracted from blood samples of known microscopically confirmed P. falciparum, P. malariae and P. ovale-infected patients were used as positive controls. P. vivax gDNA was kindly donated by Dr Ambroise Ahouidi (Le Dantec Hospital, Dakar).
Qualitative detection of Plasmodium parasite DNA was based on nested PCR with primers targeting the Plasmodium spp. 18S small sub-unit ribosomal RNA (18S ssrRNA) gene as described previously [19]. The primary PCR amplification was performed with Plasmodium genus-specific rPLU5 and rPLU6 primers pairs [20, 21] and 1.5 µl of template DNA in a total volume of 25 µl using the GoTaq Green Master Mix protocol (Catalogue no M7113, Promega) according to manufacturer’s recommendations. The nested reaction was performed for the specific detection of Plasmodium species using previously described primers pairs rFAL1 and rFAL2 for P. falciparum, rVIV1 and rVIV2 for P. vivax, rOVA1 and rOVA2 for P. ovale and rMAL1 and rMAL2 for P. malariae [20, 21]. The genus-specific primary PCR products (1 µl) were used as the template in the species-nested PCR amplification under the same conditions. Nested PCR results were scored as categorical variable (presence vs. absence of amplification). PCR cycling reaction and amplification conditions were as described by Snounou and Singh [19].

Purification of PCR products, DNA sequencing and analysis

In order to determine the sequences’ identity of the P. vivax amplified DNA, the specific bands were extracted from the gel and purified using the QIAquick Gel Extraction Kit as described by the manufacturer (Qiagen®). The purified PCR products were then sent to COGENICS for sequencing. For each DNA fragment, sequencing was performed from both the 3′ and 5′ directions (2× coverage). Consensus sequences were generated from the forward and reverse sequences of each sample and used in a BLASTn algorithm against the Genbank database for similarity profile determination.
Sequence alignment and phylogenic trees were performed using Mega 6.06 software. Plasmodium spp. small sub-unit rRNA (SSU RNA) sequences were obtained from Plasmodb version 13.0 and Genbank. Plasmodium vivax: P. vivax Sal1_U030779.1, P. vivax_HF945443.1, P. vivax_HF945441.1; P. falciparum: JQ627152.1; P. ovale: JF894411.1; P. malariae: GU815531.1. Sequences were analysed by the Neighbour Joining method using 100 bootstrap replicates.

Results

Characteristics of the study population

A total of 263 sera from patients presenting with AFI enrolled during arboviruses surveillance in Kedougou were screened in this study for the presence of malaria parasite species. Patients were aged one to 65 years old, the majority originated from the village of Bandafassi (Table 1). The mean age of the population varied between 14 years (range 1–65 years) in Bandafassi and 23 years (range 4–60 years) in Kedougou (Table 1). The sex ratio was in favour of females in Bandafassi and in favour of males in others villages (Table 1).
Table 1
Characteristics of the study population
 
Kedougou
Bandafassi
Ninefesha
Other
Total
Number
57
149
34
23
263
Percentage (%)
21.67
56.65
12.93
8.75
100
Age
 Mean
23
14
16
21
 
 Range
[4–60]
[1–65]
[1–62]
[1–50]
 
Sex
 Male
31
73
19
13
136
 Female
26
76
15
10
127
 M/F
1.19
0.96
1.26
1.3
 

Detection of malaria parasite species in patients by nested PCR

The four previously diagnosed clinical samples (P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. malariae, and P. ovale) and sterile distilled water were used as the positive and negative controls, respectively to validate the nested PCR approach. The presence of amplified DNA products in a patient’s specimen corresponding to P. falciparum (205 bp), P. vivax (120 bp), P. malariae (144 bp) and P. ovale (375 bp) was confirmed (Figure 2).
Plasmodium genomic DNA was amplifiable by nested PCR from 62.35% (164/263) of the 263 sera screened in this study (Table 2). P. falciparum accounted for the majority of infections and was present either as single infections in 85.97% (141/164) of positive samples or mixed with P. ovale (11.58%, 19/164) or P. vivax (1.21%, 2/164). Nineteen patients (11.58%) were infected with P. ovale, all of which were mixed with P. falciparum (Table 2). P. malariae was not detected in the current survey despite report of its presence in Kedougou (Ndiaye et al. unpublished data). Four patients (2.43%) were found to be infected by P. vivax, two of which were mixed infections with P. falciparum (Table 2). Three of the four cases of P. vivax infections originated from the village of Bandafassi and concerned two females aged 4 and 10 years old and one male aged 15 years. The fourth P. vivax case originated from a 9 years old female from Ninefesha village (Table 2).
Table 2
Details of single and mixed Plasmodium species infections in Kedougou
Site (sample size)
Plasmodium species
P. falciparum
P. vivax
P. malariae
P. ovale
P. falciparum + P. vivax
P. falciparum + P. ovale
Kedougou (57)
42
0
0
0
0
5
Bandafassi (149)
77
1
0
0
2
9
Ninefesha (34)
4
1
0
0
0
3
Others (23)
18
0
0
0
0
2
Total
141
2
0
0
2
19

Sequences analysis confirmation of Plasmodium vivax infections

To substantiate the PCR assays results on the four incidences of P. vivax, DNA sequencing was performed for the four samples for gene specific to P. vivax. BLASTn analyses of the DNA sequences generated from the positive P. vivax samples confirmed that the P. vivax sequences from Kedougou (PVX_KDG1, PVX_KDG2, PVX_KDG3 and PVX_KDG4) matched the Genbank P. vivax isolate SV6 18S ribosomal RNA gene partial sequence (ID: JQ627158.1), P. vivax Sal1 blood stage small sub-unit rRNA gene (ID: PVU03079) and P. vivax isolate SV5 18S ribosomal RNA gene partial sequence (ID: JQ627157.1) by 98, 100, 100, and 97%, respectively (Figure 3).
In addition, multiple sequences alignment of the four DNA sequences from P. vivax-infected samples and reference 18S rRNA gene sequence of P. vivax Sal1 strain indicated perfect homology with limited polymorphism between the Kedougou P. vivax DNA sequences and the reference P. vivax sequence, therefore demonstrating that sequences from Kedougou corresponded to P. vivax (Figure 4).
Consistent with the existence of different small sub-unit RNA genes in P. vivax [22], phylogenetic analysis showed that sequences from Kedougou cluster with SSU RNA of P. vivax genes of different isolates and strains while branching-out from sequences of other Plasmodium spp. (Figure 4). PVX_KDG1 and PVX_KDG4 were closely related to PVX_JQ627158.1 and PVX_JQ627157.1, respectively, while PVX_KDG2 and PVX_KDG3 clustered with PVX-Sal1 reference strain (Figure 5). These observations are in accordance with the sequences analysis data (Figure 3). Taken together, these results confirmed the presence of P. vivax infections in Senegal.

Discussion

The detection of P. falciparum and P. vivax DNA from serum samples of microscopically confirmed, malaria-infected patients [17, 18] has demonstrated the feasibility for retrospective diagnosis of malaria infection in specimen banks of cohort studies, such as in determining malaria co-infection in HIV-seropositive populations or arboviruses-infected patients.
In the present study, nested PCR diagnostic assays targeting the 18S rRNA gene of Plasmodium species has been used to detect malaria parasite DNA in stored sera. The study revealed the predominance of P. falciparum either as single or mixed infections with P. vivax or P. ovale in Kedougou. The fact that all P. ovale infections detected in this study were mixed with P. falciparum suggests that P. ovale infections might be underestimated by microscopy diagnostic. The high prevalence of P. falciparum in Kedougou and other regions in Senegal [16] largely justifies the targeted orientation of malaria control strategies against this species. It was surprising that P. malariae failed to be detected since studies in different areas of Senegal [2325], including Kedougou (Ndiaye et al. unpublished data), have documented the presence of P. malariae. The positive amplification obtained with parasite DNA from a microscopy-confirmed P. malariae-infected patient in the nested PCR approach rules out a technical issue and undoubtedly confirms the absence of P. malariae in the screened samples. A possible explanation of the absence of P. malariae in the surveyed samples might be a low parasitaemia below the detection limit of the nested PCR approach. Another explanation might be related to the low prevalence of P. malariae in the region. Both P. ovale and P. malariae have long been reported to be widely distributed in tropical Africa and other major malaria-endemic areas of the world [24, 2628] and are often associated with P. falciparum infections [24, 27] as reported in this study for P. ovale.
The present study reports the first substantiated molecular evidence of P. vivax infections in patients from Kedougou. There have been other reports of P. vivax elsewhere on the African continent where P. vivax was initially thought to be absent [6, 7, 11, 13, 14, 29] due to the high prevalence of Duffy-negative individuals considered resistant to P. vivax infection [10, 30]. However, reports of documented P. vivax presence in West and Central African countries such as Congo [29], Cameroun [14, 15] and Mali [13] highly suggest that this parasite is evolving and adapting, becoming therefore a major public health concern. Infections caused by P. vivax, initially thought as ‘benign’ are now gaining higher importance, because of the very wide distribution of P. vivax parasite both in tropical and sub-tropical areas [31, 32] and the high number of reported clinical cases [31, 33, 34] along with documented cases of severe P. vivax disease and even deaths [3537]. An important limitation of this study is the inability to link the confirmed P. vivax infections with the Duffy phenotypes of the individuals affected, thus the findings reported in the present study deserve to be substantiated by the determination of the Duffy status of the P. vivax-infected patients in order to gain insights into the mechanism underlying P. vivax infections in Kedougou patients. The inability to link the reported P. vivax infections with the disease clinical outcome constitutes an additional limitation of the study. The presence of Duffy-positive ethnic groups that may be present in Senegal, particularly in the Kedougou region, a gold-mining area attracting an important flux of migrants from neighbouring countries, may account for P. vivax presence in the area. The recent adaptation of P. knowlesi, originally a simian malaria species, to human [2] suggests that a similar adaptation of the P. vivax parasite could be occurring, accounting for its increasing prevalence on the African continent.
In recent years, global efforts against malaria have shifted from control to specific strategies aimed at globally eliminating malaria in given areas, implying a need for accurate identification of both P. falciparum and non P. falciparum spp. that might sustain malaria transmission. In Senegal, the National Malaria Control Programme is already struggling to control malaria due to P. falciparum; the additional burden of P. vivax infections can therefore be daunting.

Conclusion

The present study provides the first molecular evidence of P. vivax infections in Kedougou (southeastern Senegal). Further investigations with a larger sampling in Kedougou and other Senegalese settings are needed to document the presence and prevalence of P. vivax infections in Senegal before orientated strategies can be deployed. The results presented here indicate that there may be a need for the National Malaria Control Programme to anticipate reviewing the management of malaria, including P. vivax.

Authors’ contributions

MN, AS, CL, AT, and AAS conceived and designed the study. MN, LGT and NSB performed the experiments. MN, LGT, NSB, FD, BD, ON, AM, MLV, and RP participated in data analysis and interpretation. MN, LGT, AS, CL, AAS, and AT wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to express their gratitude to the population, healthcare workers and medical authorities in Kedougou region for their support and cooperation in conducting this study. Joseph Faye and Vincent Richard (Epidemiology Unit, Pasteur Institute of Dakar) are acknowledged for providing the P. ovale and P. malariae-positive samples and Ambroise Ahouidi (Le Dantec Hospital of Dakar, Senegal) for the kind donation of P. vivax DNA. The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grant Number AI1069145.

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Metadaten
Titel
A molecular survey of acute febrile illnesses reveals Plasmodium vivax infections in Kedougou, southeastern Senegal
verfasst von
Makhtar Niang
Laty Gaye Thiam
Abdourahmane Sow
Cheikh Loucoubar
Ndeye Sakha Bob
Fode Diop
Babacar Diouf
Oumy Niass
Annick Mansourou
Marie Louise Varela
Ronald Perraut
Amadou A Sall
Aissatou Toure-Balde
Publikationsdatum
01.12.2015
Verlag
BioMed Central
Erschienen in
Malaria Journal / Ausgabe 1/2015
Elektronische ISSN: 1475-2875
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-015-0808-y

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