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J Infect Dis ; 180(6): 2077-80, 1999 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10558975

ABSTRACT

Ninety-four patients with falciparum malaria were treated with mefloquine (1000-mg single dose) and remained hospitalized in a malaria-free area for a minimum of 28 days. There was 1 parasitologic failure (grade I resistance [RI]) for a 99% cure rate (95% confidence interval, 94.2%-99.7%). Mean parasite clearance time by thick smear was 45.7 h (SD, 11.4 h). The subject in whom therapy failed had a parasite clearance time (71 h) >2 SD above the population mean. His plasma mefloquine level 48 h after administration was lower (578 ng/mL) than the range of levels from 8 randomly selected cured subjects (834-2360 ng/mL). The IC50 to mefloquine for the recrudescent strain of the RI failure was in the upper 90th percentile of IC50 values from 30 cured subjects. These results show a high mefloquine cure rate but document the onset and mechanism of the emergence of resistance.


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Antimalarials/therapeutic use , Malaria, Falciparum/drug therapy , Mefloquine/therapeutic use , Adolescent , Adult , Animals , Antimalarials/pharmacology , Brazil , Drug Resistance , Humans , Male , Mefloquine/pharmacology , Middle Aged , Plasmodium falciparum/drug effects , Treatment Outcome
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J Infect Dis ; 175(6): 1544-7, 1997 Jun.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9180204

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to compare an experimental regimen of atovaquone plus proguanil with the standard regimen of quinine plus tetracycline for the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria. The study was designed as an open, randomized study of men presenting with symptoms of uncomplicated malaria and thick-smear slide confirmation of parasitemia (1000-100,000 ring forms/microL). Subjects were hospitalized for 28 days to insure medication compliance and to rule out the possibility of reinfections. With 77 patients in each group, the cure rates were 98.7% and 100% for atovaquone plus proguanil and quinine plus tetracycline, respectively. The parasite clearance times (mean, 56 h) and fever clearance times (mean, 19 h) were significantly shorter in the atovaquone plus proguanil group, and there were significantly fewer side effects in the atovaquone plus proguanil group. Atovaquone plus proguanil is an efficacious, easily administered, safe regimen for the treatment of uncomplicated, multidrug-resistant falciparum malaria in Brazil.


Subject(s)
Antimalarials/administration & dosage , Malaria/drug therapy , Naphthoquinones/administration & dosage , Proguanil/administration & dosage , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Antimalarials/adverse effects , Atovaquone , Brazil , Drug Therapy, Combination , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Naphthoquinones/adverse effects , Proguanil/adverse effects , Quinine/administration & dosage , Quinine/adverse effects , Tetracycline/administration & dosage , Tetracycline/adverse effects
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Rev Soc Bras Med Trop ; 29(5): 467-76, 1996.
Article in Portuguese | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-8966311

ABSTRACT

Ten inhabitants of Itaquara, Bahia, Brazil treated with oxamniquine and subsequently praziquantel were not cured. Schistosoma mansoni isolates derived from these patients were studied. Snails were infected with miracidia derived from the feces of these patients and the cercariae produced used to infect albino mice. The animals were then treated with a single oral dose of oxamniquine (25, 50 and 100mg/kg) or praziquantel (100, 200 and 400 mg/kg). The response to chemotherapy was significantly different in some of the isolates although it was not possible to characterize any of them as resistant. In addition, DNA analysis of the isolates by means of "Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA" indicated a low degree of variability as compared with a laboratory strain, LE. Thus, it was not possible to characterize these organisms at a genetic level as a distinct strain.


Subject(s)
Oxamniquine/pharmacology , Praziquantel/pharmacology , Schistosoma mansoni/drug effects , Schistosomiasis mansoni/parasitology , Schistosomicides/pharmacology , Adolescent , Animals , Child , Humans , Mice , Schistosomiasis mansoni/drug therapy , Schistosomicides/therapeutic use
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