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Fansidar prophylaxis, therapy, and immune responses in rodent malaria (Plasmodium berghei).

Abstract
In order to determine the effect of Fansidar on plasmodial infection in mice, outbred, adult, Swiss-Webster mice were treated with Fansidar (20 mg sulfadoxine and 1 mg pyrimethamine/kg body weight) at various intervals before and/or after inoculation with blood stages of Plasmodium berghei. Drug therapy resulted in cure if it was given before the parasitemia rose to 53%. Oral administration of Fansidar was more effective in reducing or preventing parasitemia than intramuscular injection. Fatal infections were prevented if mice were treated orally with one dose of Fansidar 2 days before inoculation with P. berghei, whereas only partial protection occurred in animals treated 4 or more days before inoculation. Fansidar administered on two consecutive days provided protection if the drug was given at 3 and 2 days before inoculation. Administration of Fansidar for three consecutive days protected all animals if given on days 8 to 6 before inoculation. After oral administration of Fansidar, the parasitemia dropped dramatically and was undetectable at 60 hr. At 12 hr after oral treatment, schizonts and trophozoites were numerous, but there were few merozoites. Schizonts were the predominant stage at 24 hr, whereas merozoites predominated at 36 hr. Swiss-Webster and C57BL/6 mice became immune to a lethal dose of P. berghei after 4 cycles of inoculation and drug cure. Protective immunity was still present at 472 days after the fifth parasite inoculation.
AuthorsJ J Ferraroni, C A Speer
JournalThe Journal of parasitology (J Parasitol) Vol. 68 Issue 4 Pg. 609-15 (Aug 1982) ISSN: 0022-3395 [Print] United States
PMID6750070 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Antimalarials
  • Drug Combinations
  • Sulfanilamides
  • fanasil, pyrimethamine drug combination
  • Sulfadoxine
  • Pyrimethamine
Topics
  • Animals
  • Antimalarials (administration & dosage, pharmacology, therapeutic use)
  • Drug Combinations (administration & dosage, pharmacology, therapeutic use)
  • Female
  • Malaria (drug therapy, immunology, prevention & control)
  • Mice
  • Plasmodium berghei
  • Pyrimethamine (administration & dosage, pharmacology, therapeutic use)
  • Sulfadoxine (administration & dosage, pharmacology, therapeutic use)
  • Sulfanilamides (therapeutic use)

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