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Effective Antimalarial Chemoprevention in Childhood Enhances the Quality of CD4+ T Cells and Limits Their Production of Immunoregulatory Interleukin 10.


ABSTRACT: Experimental inoculation of viable Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites administered with chemoprevention targeting blood-stage parasites results in protective immunity. It is unclear whether chemoprevention similarly enhances immunity following natural exposure to malaria.We assessed P. falciparum-specific T-cell responses among Ugandan children who were randomly assigned to receive monthly dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP; n = 87) or no chemoprevention (n = 90) from 6 to 24 months of age, with pharmacologic assessments for adherence, and then clinically followed for an additional year.During the intervention, monthly DP reduced malaria episodes by 55% overall (P < .001) and by 97% among children who were highly adherent to DP (P < .001). In the year after the cessation of chemoprevention, children who were highly adherent to DP had a 55% reduction in malaria incidence as compared to children given no chemoprevention (P = .004). Children randomly assigned to receive DP had higher frequencies of blood-stage specific CD4(+) T cells coproducing interleukin-2 and tumor necrosis factor ? (P = .003), which were associated with protection from subsequent clinical malaria and parasitemia, and fewer blood-stage specific CD4(+) T cells coproducing interleukin-10 and interferon ? (P = .001), which were associated with increased risk of malaria.In this setting, effective antimalarial chemoprevention fostered the development of CD4(+) T cells that coproduced interleukin 2 and tumor necrosis factor ? and were associated with prospective protection, while limiting CD4(+) T-cell production of the immunoregulatory cytokine IL-10.

SUBMITTER: Jagannathan P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4918829 | biostudies-other | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Effective Antimalarial Chemoprevention in Childhood Enhances the Quality of CD4+ T Cells and Limits Their Production of Immunoregulatory Interleukin 10.

Jagannathan Prasanna P   Bowen Katherine K   Nankya Felistas F   McIntyre Tara I TI   Auma Ann A   Wamala Samuel S   Sikyomu Esther E   Naluwu Kate K   Nalubega Mayimuna M   Boyle Michelle J MJ   Farrington Lila A LA   Bigira Victor V   Kapisi James J   Aweeka Fran F   Greenhouse Bryan B   Kamya Moses M   Dorsey Grant G   Feeney Margaret E ME  

The Journal of infectious diseases 20160410 2


<h4>Background</h4>Experimental inoculation of viable Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites administered with chemoprevention targeting blood-stage parasites results in protective immunity. It is unclear whether chemoprevention similarly enhances immunity following natural exposure to malaria.<h4>Methods</h4>We assessed P. falciparum-specific T-cell responses among Ugandan children who were randomly assigned to receive monthly dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP; n = 87) or no chemoprevention (n = 90  ...[more]

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