Molecular epidemiological and cytological studies on Plasmodium falciparum distributing in Southeast Asian continent or island areas

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Our previous findings showed that wild isolates of Plasmodium falciparum collected from Myanmar and Vietnam were easily adapted to in vitro culture, whereas those collected from Indonesian islands failed to be adapted. These results may suggest that Indonesian wild isolates has a tendency not to easily adapt to in vitro culture, differing from those distributing in continental SEA. Therefore, this study was conducted for confirmation of these previous findings and for cytological and molecular epidemiological comparisons between wild isolates collected from continental SEA or from Indonesian islands. All of 20 wild isolates collected from many Indonesian islands could not be adapted to in vitro culture again; all parasites disappeared within 7 days in culture. On the other hand, seven wild isolates collected from Vietnam and Cambodia were adapted to in vitro culture. Particularly, an isolate collected from Vietnam grew well, and it formed many young gametocytes. This isolates could be induced mass-production of gametocytes by decreasing glucose level in the culture medium. By using this isolate and an Indonesian isolate, comparison at molecular level was tried by the Roche Genome Sequencer FLX+ System (the Pyrosequence method), but any difference between them was not found yet.