This project is part of the Malaria Host-Pathogen Interaction Center (MaHPIC) - a transdisciplinary malaria systems biology research program supported by an NIH/NIAID contract (# HHSN272201200031C; see http://www.systemsbiology.emory.edu). The MaHPIC generates many data types (e.g., clinical, parasitological, metabolomics, functional genomics, lipidomics, proteomics, immune response) and mathematical models, to iteratively test and develop hypotheses related to the complex host-parasite dynamics in the course of malaria in non-human primates, and metabolomics data via collaborations with investigators conducting clinical studies in malaria endemic countries, with the overarching goal of better understanding human disease, pathogenesis, and immunity. Curation and maintenance of all data and metadata are the responsibility of the MaHPIC. Overall design: Malaria-naive male rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), approximately three years of age, were inoculated intravenously with salivary gland sporozoites isolated at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from multiple Anopheles species (An. dirus, An. gambiae, and An. stephensi) and then profiled for parasitological, clinical, immunological, functional genomic, lipidomic, proteomic, and metabolomic measurements. The experiment was designed for 100 days, and pre- and post-100 day periods to prepare subjects and administer curative treatments respectively. The anti-malarial drug artemether was subcuratively administered to three subjects during the primary parasitemia to suppress clinical complications and to all animals for curative treatment of blood-stage infections to allow detection of relapses. One subject was euthanized during the 100-day experimental period due to clinical complications of malaria. The anti-malarial drugs chloroquine and primaquine were administered to all remaining subjects at the end of the study for curative treatment of the liver- and blood-stage infections, respectively. Plasma samples were acquired every other day from capillary blood and at seven-time points from venous blood. The seven-time point collections were used to generate these results. This dataset was generated from bone marrow aspirate samples from 5 individuals collected 7 times over the 100-day experiment. Since one animal was euthanized after time point 3, a total of 31 samples were collected. The experimental design and protocols for this study were approved by the Emory University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). These results are a product of a consortium of researchers known as the Malaria Host Pathogen Interaction Center (MaHPIC). For more information on the MaHPIC, please visit http://www.systemsbiology.emory.edu/ . Within the MaHPIC, these data were collected as part of 'Experiment 04' (E04). To access other publicly available results from E04 and other MaHPIC Experiments, including clinical results (specifics on drugs administered, diet, and veterinary interventions), and other omics data sets, please visit http://plasmodb.org/plasmo/mahpic.jsp .
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