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Therapeutic efficacies of artesunate-sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and chloroquine-sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in vivax malaria pilot studies: relationship to Plasmodium vivax dhfr mutations.

Abstract
Artemisinin-derivative combination therapies (ACT) are highly efficacious against multidrug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Few efficacy data, however, are available for vivax malaria. With high rates of chloroquine (CQ) resistance in both vivax and falciparum malaria in Papua Province, Indonesia, new combination therapies are required for both species. We recently found artesunate plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (ART-SP) to be highly effective (96%) in the treatment of falciparum malaria in Papua Province. Following a preliminary study of CQ plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (CQ-SP) for the treatment of Plasmodium vivax infection, we used modified World Health Organization criteria to evaluate the efficacy of ART-SP for the treatment of vivax malaria in Papua. Nineteen of 22 patients treated with ART-SP could be evaluated on day 28, with no early treatment failures. Adequate clinical and parasitological responses were found by day 14 in all 20 (100%) of the patients able to be evaluated and by day 28 in 17 patients (89.5%). Fever and parasite clearance times were short, with hematological improvement observed in 70.6% of the patients. Double (at positions 58 and 117) and quadruple (at positions 57, 58, 61, and 117) mutations in the P. vivax dihydrofolate reductase (PvDHFR) were common in Papuan P. vivax isolates (46 and 18%, respectively). Treatment failure with SP-containing regimens was significantly higher with isolates with this PvDHFR quadruple mutation, which included a novel T-->M mutation at residue 61 linked to an S-->T (but not an S-->N) mutation at residue 117. ART-SP ACT resulted in a high cure rate for both major Plasmodium species in Papua, though progression of DHFR mutations in both species due to the continued use of SP monotherapy for clinically diagnosed malaria threatens the future utility of this combination.
AuthorsEmiliana Tjitra, Joanne Baker, Sri Suprianto, Qin Cheng, Nicholas M Anstey
JournalAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy (Antimicrob Agents Chemother) Vol. 46 Issue 12 Pg. 3947-53 (Dec 2002) ISSN: 0066-4804 [Print] United States
PMID12435700 (Publication Type: Clinical Trial, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Artemisinins
  • Drug Combinations
  • Sesquiterpenes
  • fanasil, pyrimethamine drug combination
  • Artesunate
  • Sulfadoxine
  • Chloroquine
  • Tetrahydrofolate Dehydrogenase
  • Pyrimethamine
Topics
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Animals
  • Artemisinins (administration & dosage, therapeutic use)
  • Artesunate
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Chloroquine (administration & dosage, therapeutic use)
  • Drug Combinations
  • Drug Therapy, Combination
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Malaria, Vivax (drug therapy)
  • Male
  • Plasmodium vivax (enzymology, genetics)
  • Pyrimethamine (administration & dosage, therapeutic use)
  • Sesquiterpenes (administration & dosage, therapeutic use)
  • Sulfadoxine (administration & dosage, therapeutic use)
  • Tetrahydrofolate Dehydrogenase (genetics)
  • Treatment Outcome

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