The evolutionary consequences of blood-stage vaccination on the rodent malaria Plasmodium chabaudi.
Malaria vaccine developers are concerned that antigenic escape will erode vaccine efficacy. Evolutionary theorists have raised the possibility that some types of vaccine could also create conditions favoring the evolution of more virulent pathogens. Such evolution would put unvaccinated people at gr...
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doaj-226e263b1947497aa18f70475a6dfc8a2021-07-02T05:39:15ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Biology1544-91731545-78852012-01-01107e100136810.1371/journal.pbio.1001368The evolutionary consequences of blood-stage vaccination on the rodent malaria Plasmodium chabaudi.Victoria C BarclayDerek SimBrian H K ChanLucas A NellMaia A RabaaAndrew S BellRobin F AndersAndrew F ReadMalaria vaccine developers are concerned that antigenic escape will erode vaccine efficacy. Evolutionary theorists have raised the possibility that some types of vaccine could also create conditions favoring the evolution of more virulent pathogens. Such evolution would put unvaccinated people at greater risk of severe disease. Here we test the impact of vaccination with a single highly purified antigen on the malaria parasite Plasmodium chabaudi evolving in laboratory mice. The antigen we used, AMA-1, is a component of several candidate malaria vaccines currently in various stages of trials in humans. We first found that a more virulent clone was less readily controlled by AMA-1-induced immunity than its less virulent progenitor. Replicated parasites were then serially passaged through control or AMA-1 vaccinated mice and evaluated after 10 and 21 rounds of selection. We found no evidence of evolution at the ama-1 locus. Instead, virulence evolved; AMA-1-selected parasites induced greater anemia in naïve mice than both control and ancestral parasites. Our data suggest that recombinant blood stage malaria vaccines can drive the evolution of more virulent malaria parasites.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3409122?pdf=render |
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Victoria C Barclay Derek Sim Brian H K Chan Lucas A Nell Maia A Rabaa Andrew S Bell Robin F Anders Andrew F Read The evolutionary consequences of blood-stage vaccination on the rodent malaria Plasmodium chabaudi. PLoS Biology |
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Victoria C Barclay Derek Sim Brian H K Chan Lucas A Nell Maia A Rabaa Andrew S Bell Robin F Anders Andrew F Read |
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Victoria C Barclay |
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The evolutionary consequences of blood-stage vaccination on the rodent malaria Plasmodium chabaudi. |
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The evolutionary consequences of blood-stage vaccination on the rodent malaria Plasmodium chabaudi. |
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The evolutionary consequences of blood-stage vaccination on the rodent malaria Plasmodium chabaudi. |
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The evolutionary consequences of blood-stage vaccination on the rodent malaria Plasmodium chabaudi. |
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The evolutionary consequences of blood-stage vaccination on the rodent malaria Plasmodium chabaudi. |
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evolutionary consequences of blood-stage vaccination on the rodent malaria plasmodium chabaudi. |
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Malaria vaccine developers are concerned that antigenic escape will erode vaccine efficacy. Evolutionary theorists have raised the possibility that some types of vaccine could also create conditions favoring the evolution of more virulent pathogens. Such evolution would put unvaccinated people at greater risk of severe disease. Here we test the impact of vaccination with a single highly purified antigen on the malaria parasite Plasmodium chabaudi evolving in laboratory mice. The antigen we used, AMA-1, is a component of several candidate malaria vaccines currently in various stages of trials in humans. We first found that a more virulent clone was less readily controlled by AMA-1-induced immunity than its less virulent progenitor. Replicated parasites were then serially passaged through control or AMA-1 vaccinated mice and evaluated after 10 and 21 rounds of selection. We found no evidence of evolution at the ama-1 locus. Instead, virulence evolved; AMA-1-selected parasites induced greater anemia in naïve mice than both control and ancestral parasites. Our data suggest that recombinant blood stage malaria vaccines can drive the evolution of more virulent malaria parasites. |
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