STUDIES IN HUMAN MALARIA .18. THE LIFE PATTERN OF SPOROZOITE-INDUCED ELIZABETH STRAIN VIVAX MALARIA
STUDIES IN HUMAN MALARIA .18. THE LIFE PATTERN OF SPOROZOITE-INDUCED ELIZABETH STRAIN VIVAX MALARIA
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10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a119385
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发表时间:
1950-01-01
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BURGESS, RW
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COATNEY, GR;COOPER, WC;BURGESS, RW
This report is a summary of the chief characteristics of infections with the St. Elizabeth strain ofP. vivaxin 198 persons experimentally infected by mosquito bites during a period of four and a half years. The number of, sporozoites in the salivary glands of each infected mosquito was graded from 1 + to 4 +; the total number of pluses for the mosquitoes that bit each patient served as a rough measure of the infective inoculum. Drugs were used either as clinical prophylactics or therapeutically. Details concerning their administration have been given in previous papers of this series which have been summarized in thisBulletin. The drugs used were sulphadiazine, sulphapyrazine, quinine, mepacrine, pamaquin, SN1796, SN5241, SN6771, sontochin, SN7266, chloroquine, SN8557, metachloridine, colchicine, and pentaquine. Of these only pamaquin and pentaquine are classed as curative inasmuch as in combination with quinine they can prevent relapse.Thick blood smears were examined daily during 45 to 60 days after exposure to infection and at least once weekly through the first; 18 months.Of the 198 subjects, 195 developed overt malaria. Of the 3 who failed to do so 2 were lost from. observation before delayed primary attacks were due. Four hundred and twenty-nine attacks of malaria were observed in these 195 persons; 135 attacks occurred within 2 months after mosquito bites, and 294 in a period of 6 to 14 months after bites.Seventy-eight subjects received no prophylactic drug; 75 of these developed patent malaria 11 to 20 days from initial exposure. The remaining 3 had primary attacks delayed to 298, 318 and 319 days after exposure; all these three men had had relatively small inocula.Of 120 men given protective medication, 41 had primary attacks in from 12: to 64 days after exposure: 76 had primary attacks delayed to from 193 to 350 days after exposure. Three never developed overt malaria [see above] The failure of drugs to prevent early primary attacks could be explained in all the 41 cases by the inadequacy of the regimen adopted.The duration of latency after treatment of early attacks bore no relation to the drug used provided that the treatment was capable of eradicating erythrocytic parasites. Of the 116 men given antiplasmodial therapy during early primary attacks, 10 were treated with pentaquine and quinine for 14 days: none of the ten developed late attacks. Only one adequately observed patient treated with a non-curative drug failed to develop a late attack; he was treated with quinacrine [mepacrine].The mean time of onset of the attack after mosquito bites was in 74 delayed primary attacks 287.1 days; in 79 relapses after early activity it was 275.6 days.Long-termlatency was not dependent upon the month or season during which infection occurred, sporozoite dosage, degree or duration of early patent parasitaemia, or the nature of early non-curative therapy. During long-term latency subinoculation was negative and homologous strain superinfection could be accomplished. During the period of late activity several acute attacks usually occurred, the intervals between them being greater when slowly eliminated drugs were used. The total duration of late activity was much longer in untreated than in treated cases. It is unlikely that the final termination of overt malaria in the treated subject is a result of acquired immunity to erythrocytic parasites.Norman White.