Synergism between Amodiaquine and Its Major Metabolite, Desethylamodiaquine, against Plasmodium falciparum In Vitro
AUTOR(ES)
Mariga, S. T.
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
The in vitro activity of the prodrug amodiaquine and its metabolite monodesethyl-amodiaquine has been studied for three strains of Plasmodium falciparum: LS-2, LS-3, and LS-1. Both compounds showed significant activity against all three strains; the activity of amodiaquine was slightly higher than that of the metabolite. By use of a checkerboard design, interaction studies with both compounds yielded evidence of significant synergism; means of the sums of the fractional inhibitory concentrations were 0.0392 to 0.0746 for strain LS-2, 0.1567 to 0.3102 for strain LS-3, and 0.025 to 0.3369 for strain LS-1. In further investigations, the interaction of amodiaquine with monodesethyl-amodiaquine was tested at clinically relevant concentrations of both compounds. In these studies, involving amodiaquine at picomolar and femtomolar concentrations, the compound was found to exert high potentiating activity on monodesethyl-amodiaquine. This interaction produced mean ratios of observed to expected activity of 0.0505 to 0.0642 for strain LS-2, 0.0882 to 0.3820 for strain LS-3, and 0.0752 to 0.2924 for strain LS-1. The synergistic activity was most marked at monodesethyl-amodiaquine/amodiaquine ratios up to 100,000:1 but was still evident at higher ratios.
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