In vitro activities of benflumetol against 158 Senegalese isolates of Plasmodium falciparum in comparison with those of standard antimalarial drugs

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1999 Feb;43(2):418-20. doi: 10.1128/AAC.43.2.418.

Abstract

The 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50s) of benflumetol (range, 12.5 to 240 nM; mean, 55.1 nM) for 158 Senegalese isolates were evaluated. Ten isolates (6%) showed decreased susceptibility to benflumetol. Benflumetol was slightly more potent against chloroquine-resistant isolates (P < 0.025). No correlation or weak correlations in the responses to benflumetol and pyrimethamine, chloroquine, amodiaquine, artemether, quinine, and pyronaridine were observed, and these correlations are insufficient to suggest cross-resistance. Benflumetol may be an important alternative drug for the treatment of chloroquine-resistant malaria.

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antimalarials / pharmacology*
  • Drug Resistance
  • Ethanolamines / pharmacology*
  • Fluorenes / pharmacology*
  • Humans
  • Lumefantrine
  • Malaria, Falciparum / drug therapy
  • Plasmodium falciparum / drug effects*
  • Plasmodium falciparum / isolation & purification
  • Senegal

Substances

  • Antimalarials
  • Ethanolamines
  • Fluorenes
  • Lumefantrine