Anopheles Salivary Biomarker as a Proxy for Estimating Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Exposure on the Thailand–Myanmar Border

Phubeth Ya-Umphan Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs, Ecologie, Génétique, Evolution et Contrôle (IRD 224-CNRS 5290 UM1-UM2), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France;

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Dominique Cerqueira Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, Tak, Thailand;

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Gilles Cottrell Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, UMR 216, Paris, France;

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Daniel M. Parker Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, Tak, Thailand;
Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention, University of California, Irvine, California;

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Freya J. I. Fowkes Disease Elimination Program, Life Sciences, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia;
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia;
Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia;

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Francois Nosten Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, Tak, Thailand;
Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine Research Building, University of Oxford Old Road Campus, Oxford, United Kingdom

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Vincent Corbel Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs, Ecologie, Génétique, Evolution et Contrôle (IRD 224-CNRS 5290 UM1-UM2), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France;

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Timely identification and treatment of malaria transmission “hot spots” is essential to achieve malaria elimination. Here we investigate the relevance of using an Anopheles salivary biomarker to estimate Plasmodium falciparum malaria exposure risk along the Thailand–Myanmar border to guide malaria control. Between May 2013 and December 2014, > 9,000 blood samples collected in a cluster randomized control trial were screened with serological assays to measure the antibody responses to Anopheles salivary antigen (gSG6-P1) and P. falciparum malaria antigens (circumsporozoite protein, merozoite surface protein 119 [MSP-119]). Plasmodium falciparum infections were monitored through passive and active case detection. Seroprevalence to gSG6-P1, MSP-119, and CSP were 71.8% (95% Confidence interval [CI]: 70.9, 72.7), 68.6% (95% CI: 67.7, 69.5), and 8.6% (95% CI: 8.0, 9.2), respectively. Multivariate analysis showed that individuals with the highest Ab response to gSG6-P1 had six times the odds of being positive to CSP antigens (P < 0.001) and two times the odds of P. falciparum infection compared with low gSG6-P1 responders (P = 0.004). Spatial scan statistics revealed the presence of clusters of gSG6-P1 that partially overlapped P. falciparum infections. The gSG6-P1 salivary biomarker represents a good proxy for estimating P. falciparum malaria risk and could serve to implement hot spot–targeted vector control interventions to achieve malaria elimination.

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Address correspondence to Vincent Corbel, Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs, Ecologie, Génétique, Evolution et Contrôle (224-CNRS 5290 UM1-UM2), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), 911 Ave., Agropolis, Montpellier 34394, France. E-mail: vincent.corbel@ird.fr

Financial support: This work was supported by The Global Fund Thailand (THA-M-DDC) through the MAEL research project. P. Y.-U. received a PhD scholarship by the “Fondation Méditerranée Infection” (FR), Marseille, France. The Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) is part of the Mahidol Oxford University Research Unit, supported by the Wellcome Trust of Great Britain.

Authors’ addresses: Phubeth Ya-Umphan and Vincent Corbel, Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs, Ecologie, Génétique, Evolution et Contrôle (IRD 224-CNRS 5290 UM1-UM2), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France, E-mails: phubeth.y@dmsc.mail.go.th and vincent.corbel@ird.fr. Dominique Cerqueira and Francois Nosten, Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, Tak, Thailand, E-mails: domi_cerqueira@hotmail.com and francois@tropmedres.ac. Gilles Cottrell, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, UMR 216, Paris, France, E-mail: gilles.cottrell@ird.fr. Daniel M. Parker, Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, E-mail: dparker1@uci.edu. Freya J. I. Fowkes, Disease Elimination Program, Life Sciences, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia, E-mail: freya.fowkes@burnet.edu.au.

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