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Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines Predominate in Acute Human Plasmodium knowlesi Infections.

Cox-Singh, J; Singh, B; Daneshvar, C; Planche, T; Parker-Williams, J; Krishna, S (2011) Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines Predominate in Acute Human Plasmodium knowlesi Infections. PLOS ONE, 6 (6). e20541. ISSN 1932-6203 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020541
SGUL Authors: Cox-Singh, Janet Krishna, Sanjeev Planche, Timothy David

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Abstract

Plasmodium knowlesi has entered the human population of Southeast Asia. Naturally acquired knowlesi malaria is newly described with relatively little available data, including data on the host response to infection. Therefore pre-treatment cytokine and chemokine profiles were determined for 94 P. knowlesi, and for comparison, 20, P. vivax and 22 P. falciparum, patients recruited in Malaysian Borneo. Nine, five and one patient with P. knowlesi, P. falciparum and P. vivax respectively had complicated malaria as defined by World Health Organisation. Patients with uncomplicated P. knowlesi had lower levels of the pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-8 and TNFα than those with complicated disease (both p<0.05, Dunn's post test, DPT). The anti-inflammatory cytokines IL-1ra and IL-10 were detected in all patients in the study. IL-1ra, the most abundant cytokine measured, correlated with parasitaemia in P. knowlesi (r(s) = 0.47, p =  <0.0001), P. vivax (r(s) = 0.61, p = 0.0042) and P. falciparum (r(s) = 0.57,p = 0.0054) malaria. IL-10 correlated with parasitaemia in both P. knowlesi (r(s) = 0.54, p =  <0.0001) and P. vivax (r(s) = 0.78, p =  <0.0001) infections. There were between group differences in soluble markers of macrophage activation (MIP-1β and MCP-1). P. knowlesi patients had significantly lower levels of MIP-1β than P. falciparum (DPT, p =  <0.01). Uncomplicated P. knowlesi patients had significantly lower levels of MCP-1 than uncomplicated P. falciparum patients (DPT, p =  <0.001). There was no significant difference between complicated and uncomplicated P. knowlesi infections. MCP-1, MIP-1β, IL-8 and TNFα increased in complicated P. knowlesi but decreased in complicated P. falciparum infections. Descriptions of human knowlesi malaria provide a comparative means to discover mediators of pathophysiology in severe P. knowlesi as well as P. falciparum malaria. Crucially, P. knowlesi may be the disease and experimental primate model for severe malaria.

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Additional Information: ©2011 Cox-Singh et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords: Acute Disease, Cytokines, Humans, Immunity, Innate, Inflammation, Interleukin-2, Macrophages, Malaria, Plasmodium knowlesi, Solubility, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A, Science & Technology, Multidisciplinary Sciences, Science & Technology - Other Topics, VIVAX MALARIA, INNATE IMMUNITY, FATAL MALARIA, FALCIPARUM, PLATELETS, SEQUESTRATION, PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, PATHWAYS
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Infection and Immunity Research Institute (INII)
Journal or Publication Title: PLOS ONE
ISSN: 1932-6203
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8 June 2011Published
Web of Science ID: WOS:000291611500027
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URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/427
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020541

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