Statistical Methods for Standard Membrane-Feeding Assays to Measure Transmission Blocking or Reducing Activity in Malaria
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衡量疟疾传播阻断或减少活性的标准膜饲喂试验统计方法
- 研究问题
- 疟疾疫苗试验中，按寄生虫均数衡量传播减少和按感染蚊子比例衡量传播阻断有何差异，如何改善阻断指标的可比性？
- 方法与思路
- 作者用统计模型分析阻断活性对对照蚊子平均寄生虫数的依赖，并给定该均数的目标值构造标准化阻断活性估计。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称，阻断活性的目标量依赖难以实验控制的对照均数；所提标准化估计比替代方法具有更好的均方误差。
- 阅读关注点
- 应核对寄生虫计数模型、目标对照均数的选择依据，以及均方误差比较条件和标准化指标的生物学解释。
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原文摘要
Transmission blocking vaccines for malaria are not designed to directly protect vaccinated people from malaria disease, but to reduce the probability of infecting other people by interfering with the growth of the malaria parasite in mosquitoes. Standard membrane-feeding assays compare the growth of parasites in mosquitoes from a test sample (using antibodies from a vaccinated person) compared to a control sample. There is debate about whether to estimate the transmission reducing activity (TRA) which compares the mean number of parasites between test and control samples, or transmission blocking activity (TBA) which compares the proportion of infected mosquitoes. TBA appears biologically more important since each mosquito with any parasites is potentially infective; however, TBA is less reproducible and may be an overly strict criterion for screening vaccine candidates. Through a statistical model, we show that the TBA estimand depends on μc, the mean number of parasites in the control mosquitoes, a parameter not easily experimentally controlled. We develop a standardized TBA estimator based on the model and a given target value for μc which has better mean squared error than alternative methods. We discuss types of statistical inference needed for using these assays for vaccine development. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.