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OOKINETE DESTRUCTION WITHIN THE MOSQUITO MIDGUT LUMEN EXPLAINS ANOPHELES ALBIMANUS REFRACTORINESS TO PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM (3D7A) OOCYST INFECTION
Malaria
Midgut
Mosquito
Ookinete
Oocyst
Parasite-vector interaction
Susceptibility
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisa Rene Rachou. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology. Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation. College of Medical. Veterinary and Life Sciences. University of Glasgow. Glasgow, UK.
Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology. Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation. College of Medical. Veterinary and Life Sciences. University of Glasgow. Glasgow, UK.
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Previous studies have shown that the central American mosquito vector, Anopheles albimanus, is generally refractory to oocyst infection with allopatric isolates of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. However, the reasons for the refractoriness of A. albimanus to infection with such isolates of P. falciparum are unknown. In the current study, we investigated the infectivity of the P. falciparum clone 3D7A to laboratory-reared A. albimanus and another natural vector of human malaria, Anopheles stephensi. Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes grown in vitro were simultaneously fed to both mosquito species and the progress of malaria infection compared. In 22 independent paired experimental feeds, no mature oocysts were observed on the midguts of A. albimanus 10 days after bloodfeeding. In contrast, high levels of oocyst infection were found on the midguts of simultaneously fed A. stephensi. Direct immunofluorescence microscopy and light microscopical examination of Giemsa-stained histological sections were used to identify when the P. falciparum clone 3D7A failed to establish mature oocyst infections in A. albimanus. Similar densities of macrogametes/zygotes, and immature retort-form and mature ookinetes were found within the bloodmeals of both mosquito species. However, in A. albimanus, ookinetes were seldom associated with the peritrophic matrix, and were neither observed in the ectoperitrophic space nor the midgut epithelium. In contrast, ookinetes were frequently observed in these midgut compartments in A. stephensi. Additionally, young oocysts were observed on the midguts of A. stephensi but not A. albimanus 2 days after bloodfeeding. Vital staining of the immature retort-form and mature ookinetes found within the luminal bloodmeal, demonstrated that a significantly greater proportion of these malaria parasite stages were non-viable in A. albimanus compared with A. stephensi. Overall, our observations indicate that ookinetes of the P. falciparum clone 3D7A are destroyed within the bloodmeal of A. albimanus and that the midgut lumen, rather than the midgut epithelium, is the site of mosquito refractoriness in this particular malaria parasite-mosquito vector combination.
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BloodmealMalaria
Midgut
Mosquito
Ookinete
Oocyst
Parasite-vector interaction
Susceptibility
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