Stone, Will; Grabias, Bryan; Lanke, Kjerstin; Zheng, Hong; Locke, Emily; Diallo, Diadier; Birkett, Ashley; Morin, Merribeth; Bousema, Teun; Kumar, Sanjai; (2015) A comparison of Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein-based slot blot and ELISA immuno-assays for oocyst detection in mosquito homogenates. Malaria journal, 14 (1). 451-. ISSN 1475-2875 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-015-0954-2
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: The infectivity of Plasmodium gametocytes is typically determined by microscopically examining the midguts of mosquitoes that have taken a blood meal containing potentially infectious parasites. Such assessments are required for the development and evaluation of transmission-reducing interventions (TRI), but are limited by subjectivity, technical complexity and throughput. The detection of circumsporozoite protein (CSP) by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and enhanced chemiluminescent slot-blot (ECL-SB) may be used as objective, scalable alternatives to microscopy for the determination of infection prevalence. METHODS: To compare the performance of the CSP ELISA and ECL-SB for the detection of mosquito infection, four groups of Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes were infected with cultured Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes. At day-8 post-infection (PI), parasite status was determined by microscopy for a sample of mosquitoes from each group. At days 8 and 10 PI, the parasite status of separate mosquito samples was analysed by both CSP ELISA and ECL-SB. RESULTS: When mosquito samples were analysed 8 days PI, the ECL-SB determined similar infection prevalence to microscopy; CSP ELISA lacked the sensitivity to detect CSP in all infected mosquitoes at this early time point. When mosquitoes were analysed 48 h later (10 days PI) both assays performed as well as microscopy for infection detection. CONCLUSIONS: Whilst microscopical examination of mosquito guts is of great value when quantification of parasite burden is required, ECL-SB and CSP ELISA are suitable alternatives at day 10 PI when infection prevalence is the desired endpoint, although CSP ELISA is not suitable at day 8 PI. These results are important to groups considering large-scale implementation of TRI.
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Faculty and Department |
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases > Department of Infection Biology Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases > Department of Infection Biology > Dept of Immunology and Infection (-2019) Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Population Health (2012- ) |
Research Centre | Malaria Centre |
PubMed ID | 26573271 |
ISI | 364758200001 |
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