Atorvastatin as a potential antimalarial drug: in vitro synergy in combinational therapy with dihydroartemisinin

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2010 Feb;54(2):966-7. doi: 10.1128/AAC.01006-09. Epub 2009 Nov 30.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antimalarials / pharmacology*
  • Artemisinins / pharmacology*
  • Atorvastatin
  • Drug Combinations
  • Drug Synergism
  • Heptanoic Acids / pharmacology*
  • Parasitic Sensitivity Tests
  • Plasmodium falciparum / drug effects
  • Plasmodium falciparum / physiology
  • Pyrroles / pharmacology*

Substances

  • Antimalarials
  • Artemisinins
  • Drug Combinations
  • Heptanoic Acids
  • Pyrroles
  • artenimol
  • Atorvastatin