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Kaggwa E, Munyua WK, Mugera GM. Relapses in dogs experimentally infected with Trypanosoma brucei and treated with diminazene aceturate or isometamidium chloride. Vet Parasitol 1988; 27:199-208. [PMID: 3369073 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4017(88)90034-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Twenty dogs of mixed local East African breeds were used. Five of the dogs were uninfected controls and 15 were infected with T. brucei (ILRAD 273). Five of the infected dogs were untreated controls, five were treated with a high curative dose of diminazene aceturate, (7 mg kg-1 body weight (wt.), and five were given a subcurative dose of isometamidium chloride (1 mg kg-1 body wt.). The drugs, given at 8 days post infection (d.p.i..), led to apparent recovery. The antibody titres, however, remained high in both groups and at 42-49 d.p.i. there was at least one relapse in each treatment group. Parasite populations from relapsed animals were more resistant to the drugs than the original infecting populations. The implications of these findings are discussed.
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- Department of Parasitology and Entomology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
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Vos GJ, Moloo SK, Gardiner PR. Susceptibility of goats to tsetse-transmitted challenge with Trypanosoma vivax from East and West Africa. Parasitology 1988; 96 ( Pt 1):25-36. [PMID: 3362579 DOI: 10.1017/s0031182000081634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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To determine if, as is the case with Trypanosoma brucei and T. congolense, serodemes of T. vivax could be distinguished on the basis of immunity to the metacyclic stages of the parasite, attempts were made to immunize goats by infection with infected tsetse, followed by chemotherapy or eventual 'self-cure'. Thirty goats were infected by tsetse with either clones or stocks of T. vivax from East or West Africa. Twenty-four goats were treated with diminazene aceturate (Berenil, Hoechst A.G.) 2-6 weeks after infection and 6 goats were allowed to self-cure. Infection, followed by treatment, induced immunity to a first homologous challenge by infected tsetse in only 2 of 24 goats (one immune to the East African stock, and the other to a clone of the West African stock). Immunity to a clone of the East African stock was induced in 3 or 4 animals after a second infection and treatment and in the fourth animal of the group following a third infection and treatment. One of 2 goats infected with the clone of the East African stock was immune to challenge at 16 weeks, following self-cure without treatment, and 1 of 4 goats infected with the parent stock was similarly immune when challenged at 40 weeks post-infection. Goats susceptible to infection with East African T. vivax showed evidence of partial immunity by delayed pre-patent periods and depressed parasitaemias after challenge. Goats infected with the relatively more virulent West African T. vivax were, however, completely susceptible to infection after homologous challenge, and showed only a slight delay in pre-patent period. A similar result was obtained in a further 8 goats primed and challenged by large numbers of tsetse (20 or 100 infected tsetse/goat) with the West African T. vivax. In further experiments using a very short treatment interval, infections following challenge were clearly shown to be the result of a lack of immunity rather than relapse following treatment. Lytic antibody activity to cultured metacyclic trypanosomes could not be detected during infection but such activity against bloodstream forms was detected after 2 weeks of infection. It is suggested that the primary reason for the erratic induction of immunity to T. vivax employing this methodology is the low number of metacyclics transmitted by infected tsetse, and thus poor antigenic stimulus encountered by goats upon tsetse challenge.
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- International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases, Nairobi, Kenya
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Rice H, Ruben L, Gould S, Njogu AR, Patton CL. Phenothiazines in murine African trypanosomiasis. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1987; 81:932. [PMID: 3503414 DOI: 10.1016/0035-9203(87)90357-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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- H Rice
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510
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Bacchi CJ, Berens RL, Nathan HC, Klein RS, Elegbe IA, Rao KV, McCann PP, Marr JJ. Synergism between 9-deazainosine and DL-alpha-difluoromethylornithine in treatment of experimental African trypanosomiasis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1987; 31:1406-13. [PMID: 3118799 PMCID: PMC174951 DOI: 10.1128/aac.31.9.1406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Kinetoplastid hemoflagellates are sensitive to growth inhibition by various purine analogs. In this study the activities of 9-deazainosine (9-DINO), formycin B, and sinefungin were compared in experimental murine Trypanosoma brucei subsp. brucei infections, both singly and in combination with the ornithine decarboxylase inhibitor DL-alpha-difluoromethylornithine (DFMO, eflornithine). Used singly, all of the purine analogs were able to suppress an acute T. brucei subsp. brucei infection. 9-DINO and formycin B were the most active. None of the purine analogs was curative when used singly against a strain causing chronic central nervous system infection. 9-DINO was highly effective when used in combination with DFMO in curing this central nervous system infection and another more stringent experimental infection. Neither sinefungin nor formycin B was active in combination with DFMO in curing the central nervous system experimental infection. 9-DINO was metabolized to phosphorylated derivatives of 9-deazaadenosine and 9-deazaguanosine by bloodstream trypomastigotes, but not by murine erythrocyte suspensions or kidney or liver homogenates--a potential rationale for the selectivity of the analog. These studies indicate that 9-DINO is a potent, nontoxic purine analog which, in combination with DFMO, is capable of late-stage cures of African trypanosomiasis.
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- Department of Biology, Pace University, New York, New York 10038
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Effect of tetracycline administration on the efficacy of diminazene aceturate therapy and prophylaxis in Trypanosoma brucei infections of mice. Res Vet Sci 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/s0034-5288(18)30768-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Abebe G. Failure of berenil therapy to eliminate early infections with a strain of Trypanosoma brucei from West Abaya, Ethiopia. Trop Anim Health Prod 1987; 19:9-10. [PMID: 3603714 DOI: 10.1007/bf02250839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Mahan SM, Hendershot L, Black SJ. Control of trypanodestructive antibody responses and parasitemia in mice infected with Trypanosoma (Duttonella) vivax. Infect Immun 1986; 54:213-21. [PMID: 3489676 PMCID: PMC260139 DOI: 10.1128/iai.54.1.213-221.1986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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After infection with a cloned population of Trypanosoma vivax, C57BL/6 mice controlled parasitemia during the exponential growth phase and survived, with intermittent parasitemia, for several weeks. In contrast, most mice of the C3H/He strain did not control the first wave of parasitemia and died within 9 to 13 days after infection. Control of parasitemia in C57BL/6 mice was mediated by the production of a variant surface glycoprotein-specific trypanodestructive antibody response which was accompanied by production of antibodies against antigens shared between procyclic and bloodstream T. vivax as well as antibodies against trinitrophenyl (TNP) and sheep erythrocytes. The infected C3H/He mice did not produce trypanodestructive antibodies or antibodies against procyclic antigens or TNP but did produce antibodies against sheep erythrocytes. Although infected C57BL/6 mice produced levels of serum immunoglobulin M four times higher than infected C3H/He mice, their parasite-induced B-cell DNA synthetic responses were similar, and both sets of mice developed similar numbers of spleen cells with cytoplasmic immunoglobulin M, a proportion of which could react with TNP. In vitro biosynthetic labeling studies accompanied by immunoglobulin precipitation and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis demonstrated that the immunoglobulin-containing cells of infected C3H/He mice synthesized and secreted less immunoglobulin than similar cells from infected C57BL/6 mice. We concluded that some parasite-induced antibody-forming cells in C3H/He mice, perhaps including parasite-specific and certainly including TNP-specific cells, had an impaired capacity to make and release immunoglobulin. Within 24 h after Berenil-mediated elimination of T. vivax from infected C3H/He mice, a population of cyclophosphamide-sensitive spleen cells produced large amounts of parasite-specific and TNP-specific antibody. We concluded that the defect in terminal B-cell function leading to suppressed parasite-specific and TNP-specific antibody responses was induced either by living trypanosomes or short-lived factors from degenerating trypanosomes or by short-lived parasite-induced host responses.
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Black SJ, Sendashonga CN, Webster P, Koch GL, Shapiro SZ. Regulation of parasite-specific antibody responses in resistant (C57BL/6) and susceptible (C3H/HE) mice infected with Trypanosoma (trypanozoon) brucei brucei. Parasite Immunol 1986; 8:425-42. [PMID: 3774375 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3024.1986.tb00859.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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After infection with 10(3) T. brucei GUTat 3.1, C57BL/6 mice produced antibody responses and controlled the first parasitaemic wave whereas C3H/He mice did not. The inability of C3H/He mice to control parasitaemia resulted from an impaired ability of parasite-induced antibody-containing cells to secrete immunoglobulin. Antibody-containing cells in infected C3H/He mice regained the ability to secrete antibody within 24 h after trypanosome elimination by treatment with Berenil, suggesting that the block in antibody secretion was maintained by living parasites or short-lived components of degenerating parasites. Infected C3H/He mice also had an impaired ability to produce a rabbit erythrocyte-specific antibody response on challenge with rabbit erythrocytes and this response recovered when parasites were eliminated from the blood 24 h before analysis. It was not possible to inhibit secretion of antibody by rabbit erythrocyte-induced plasma cells either by incubating them with serum from infected C3H/He mice or by injecting large numbers of living trypanosomes into C3H/He mice already responding to rabbit erythrocytes. The process leading to failure of parasite and rabbit erythrocyte-induced antibody-containing cells to become high rate antibody-secreting cells was not identified but did not appear to correlate with any obvious change in the intra-cellular morphology of the antibody-containing cells.
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van der Meer C, Versluijs-Broers JA. Trypanosoma brucei and T. vivax: salicylhydroxamic acid and glycerol treatment of acute and chronically infected rats. Exp Parasitol 1986; 62:98-113. [PMID: 3720904 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4894(86)90013-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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In rats infected with monomorphic Trypanosoma brucei brucei, the efficacy of the therapy with salicylhydroxamic acid plus glycerol, i.e., combined therapy, decreased with increasing time after infection. It failed completely after the infection was made chronic by suboptimal treatment for 6 weeks. When this chronic infection had been established and "optimal" treatment was given, viable trypanosomes could still be detected 1 day later in brain and muscle but not in blood. In most organs, the concentrations of salicylhydroxamic acid and glycerol were lower than in the blood plasma; the maximum concentration of glycerol in the brain was only 20% of that in plasma. The most likely explanation for the failure of the combined therapy is that, in certain tissues, the concentration of the drugs remains too low to kill extravascular trypanosomes. Other explanations, such as the selection of a resistant strain or the survival of (extravascular) forms with a more active mitochondrion, could be excluded with a high degree of probability. Suramin was very effective, even after combined therapy had failed repeatedly, while melarsoprol was less effective. As in combined therapy, the dose of melarsoprol that could cure an acute infection was insufficient to cure a chronic infection. Combined therapy failed after a spontaneous chronic infection with T. b. rhodesiense had existed for 5-7 weeks, but it was effective in T. vivax infected rats even when parasitemia had been present for at least 4 days. Effective alternative schedules for combined therapy were not found.
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Moulton JE. Relapse infection after chemotherapy in goats experimentally infected with Trypanosoma brucei: pathological changes in central nervous system. Vet Pathol 1986; 23:21-8. [PMID: 3946052 DOI: 10.1177/030098588602300104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Fourteen goats were experimentally infected with Trypanosoma brucei with the following results: Four animals became terminally ill 24 to 47 days after inoculation of trypanosomes and were killed for necropsy. A second group of four goats became sick, had signs of systemic trypanosomiasis, were treated with diminazine aceturate (Berenil) and recovered showing no signs of disease over observation periods of 151 to 163 days. A third group of six goats, were treated with Berenil and temporarily recovered and in 60 to 79 days after therapy; four of these goats underwent relapse infection characterized by severe central nervous system (CNS) disease. Two of these goats were necropsied 45 days after chemotherapy, before clinical signs were evident, to show early neurological lesions. In group 3 (the relapse group), the microscopic changes became more severe as relapse infection progressed. Microscopically, the central nervous system lesions were edema, hyperemia, and infiltration of plasma cells, small lymphocytes, and some macrophages in the leptomeninges, choroid plexus, and brain parenchyma. Relapse infection is discussed from the standpoint of an occult phase of the disease where parasites are protected from the effects of trypanocidal drugs by the blood-brain barrier.
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Jennings FW, Urquhart GM. Induction of human serum-sensitive Trypanosoma brucei stabilates into human serum-resistant "T. rhodesiense". Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1985; 79:80-5. [PMID: 3992646 DOI: 10.1016/0035-9203(85)90243-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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When chronic Trypanosoma brucei infections of mice are treated with 20 mg/kg suramin, those trypanosomes which have escaped chemotherapy because they are residing in the brain, exhibit a higher degree of human serum resistance than the original infection. This resistance increases if the chronic infection is retreated for a second time, before the trypanosomes in the brain are tested by the blood incubation infectivity test. The transformation is not due to a selection of T. rhodesiense from a T. brucei/T. rhodesiense mixture in the original stabilates as cloned derivatives also exhibit these same characteristics. The implications of this finding are discussed.
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Jennings FW, Urquhart GM, Murray PK, Miller BM. The use of 2-substituted 5-nitroimidazoles in the treatment of chronic murine Trypanosoma brucei infections with central nervous system involvement. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PARASITENKUNDE (BERLIN, GERMANY) 1984; 70:691-7. [PMID: 6524019 DOI: 10.1007/bf00927120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Chronic infections of Trypanosoma brucei GVR 35/2 in mice, normally relapse after conventional chemotherapy because infective trypanosomes in the brain escape the action of the drug and are able to multiply and eventually re-establish a parasitaemia. However, if treatment consists of a single dose of 1 x 20 mg/kg suramin followed 3 or 4 days later by a 2-substituted 5-nitroimidazole, given intraperitoneally, either as a single dose or as a course of daily injections, relapses rarely occur and the majority of the mice are permanently cured. The minimum effective levels for the three 5-nitroimidazole compounds (Merck Sharp and Dohme, Rahway, NJ, USA) were two doses of 10 mg/kg of L611,744; four doses of 10 mg/kg of MK 436; and three doses of 10 mg/kg of L634,549. Generally it was more effective to divide a given total dose into two or more daily doses, rather than to give the 4-nitroimidazole as a single treatment. The effective dose levels are low enough to be of practical significance and, if the 5-nitroimidazoles were ever licensed for humans, might well prove to be an alternative to melarsoprol treatment for the elimination of trypanosomes from the central nervous system.
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Dukes P. Arsenic and old taxa: subspeciation and drug sensitivity in Trypanosoma brucei. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1984; 78:711-25. [PMID: 6241967 DOI: 10.1016/0035-9203(84)90002-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Resistance to the trypanocidal drugs atoxyl and tryparsamide was traditionally considered to be a diagnostic feature of rhodesian sleeping sickness and, consequently, of Trypanosoma rhodesiense. In examining the tryparsamide sensitivity of 13 isoenzymically defined stocks of the subgenus Trypanozoon, typical West African stocks showed no greater drug sensitivity than did those of East and Central Africa. The greatest resistance to tryparsamide was shown by two stocks isolated in the Ivory Coast. There was no evidence of strain differences in drug sensitivity to melarsoprol (Mel B) among 26 tested populations; none the less, differential melarsoprol sensitivity was evident in clones from a single mixed population. By contrast, isoenzymically defined West African stocks appeared to be less sensitive to pentamidine and diminazene aceturate (Berenil) than were typical East African stocks. Drug sensitivity was measured in a novel in vivo test designed to minimize the influence of host-parasite interactions, in particular trypanosome penetration of drug-inaccessible sites and host-antibody induced remission of parasitaemia. Drug effect was expressed as the DS0.1, the dose required to suppress parasitaemia to 0.1% of that in untreated control mice.
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Clarkson AB, Bacchi CJ, Mellow GH, Nathan HC, McCann PP, Sjoerdsma A. Efficacy of combinations of difluoromethylornithine and bleomycin in a mouse model of central nervous system African trypanosomiasis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1983; 80:5729-33. [PMID: 6193522 PMCID: PMC384332 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.80.18.5729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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DL-alpha-Difluoromethylornithine, a polyamine biosynthesis inhibitor, and bleomycin, a currently used antineoplastic agent, have each previously been shown to be curative for acute short-term infections of mice with Trypanosoma brucei brucei, an African trypanosome closely related to those that cause the human disease African sleeping sickness. These agents were tested singly and in combination in a previously described mouse model of sleeping sickness with demonstrable brain involvement. The original model is extended by using two additional strains of outbred mice and by demonstrating that melarsoprol, an arsenical and currently the only drug used for human African trypanosomiasis involving the brain, was also curative for these brain infections. Neither difluoromethylornithine nor bleomycin alone was curative for the brain infections; however, many combinations of the two drugs were found to be 100% curative with no evidence of immediate toxicity.
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Jennings FW, Urquhart GM. The use of the 2 substituted 5-nitroimidazole, Fexinidazole (Hoe 239) in the treatment of chronic T. brucei infections in mice. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PARASITENKUNDE (BERLIN, GERMANY) 1983; 69:577-81. [PMID: 6636983 DOI: 10.1007/bf00926669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Relapse of chronic T. brucei infections was completely prevented by treating with either diminazene aceturate (Berenil) at 40 mg/kg or suramin (Germanin) at 20 mg/kg followed by four doses of the 2-substituted 5-nitroimidazole (Fexinidazole) (Hoe 239). None of these drugs administered singly elicited 100% permanent cures although a high percentage of the mice were cured with four doses of Fexinidazole at 250 mg/kg. A single dose of 20 mg/kg suramin followed by four daily doses of 30 mg/kg Fexinidazole will effectively eliminate all the trypanosomes from the brains of chronically infected mice.
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Jennings FW, Urquhart GM, Murray PK, Miller BM. Treatment with suramin and 2-substituted 5-nitroimidazoles of chronic murine Trypanosoma brucei infections with central nervous system involvement. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1983; 77:693-8. [PMID: 6659049 DOI: 10.1016/0035-9203(83)90207-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Mice infected with either of two isolates of Trypanosoma brucei, GVR 23/1 or GVR 35/1, develop a chronic infection in which trypanosomes are localized in the central nervous system. These infected mice were used to evaluate the efficacy of a combination drug treatment comprising suramin and one of three 2-substituted 5-nitroimidazoles. None of the three 5-nitroimidazoles tested alone, cured mice when administered 21 days after infection. However, it was found that T. brucei GVR 23/1 infections could be cured by a single dose of 20 mg/kg suramin followed by a single dose of 80 mg/kg L611,744 [3a,4,5,6,7,8,9,9a-octahydro-3-(1-methyl-5-nitroimidazol-2yl)cycloocta(D) isoxazole]. The single dose of 20 mg/kg suramin had to be followed by four doses of 80 mg/kg L611,744 to cure mice infected with another stabilate, T. brucei GVR 35/1. A single dose of 20 mg/kg suramin followed either by four doses of 250 mg/kg MK 436 [3a,4,5,6,7,7a-hexahydro-3-(1-methyl-5nitro-1H-imidazol-2-yl)-1, 2-benzisoxazole] or four doses of 70 mg/kg of a dihydroxy analogue of MK 436 [cis-3a,4,5,6,7,7a-hexahydro-3-(1-methyl-5-nitro-1H-imidazol-2-yl)-1, 2-benzisoxazole-6,7-diol] also permanently cured all T. brucei GVR 35/1.
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Gilbert RJ, Newton BA. Ethidium bromide: pharmacokinetics and efficacy against trypanosme infections in rabbits and calves. Parasitology 1982; 85 (Pt 1):127-48. [PMID: 7122121 DOI: 10.1017/s0031182000054214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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[14C]ethidium bromide has been used to determine drug levels in tissues and body fluids of rabbits and calves following intramuscular injection. Uninfected and Trypanosoma brucei- or Trypanosoma congolense-infected animals were studied. Blood and tissue fluid level reached a maximum with 1 h and then fell rapidly; after 96 h 80-90% of the radioactivity injected had been excreted, approximately one third in urine and two thirds in faeces. By 1 h after injection of 1 mg [14C]ethidium/kg into a T. congolense-infected calf, 70-80% of the radioactivity in blood was found to be bound to trypanosomes. Doses of 1 or 10 mg/kg were found not to be curative for T congolense or T. brucei infections in rabbits: drug treatment resulted in a period of sub-patent parasitaemia which was always followed by a relapse. Examination of the prophylactic action of ethidium in rabbits showed that the drug extended the pre-patent period following trypanosome inoculation but provided no absolute protection. A period of "apparent' prophylaxis observed after drug treatment of infected rabbits has been correlated with the presence of anti-trypanosome IgG in the serum.
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Jennings FW, Gray GD, Urquhart GM. The use of Erlangen diamidine 98/202 in relapsing Trypanosoma brucei infections in mice. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1982; 76:204-7. [PMID: 7101405 DOI: 10.1016/0035-9203(82)90275-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Mice infected with T. brucei GVR 23/1 or T. brucei GVR 35/1 for 21 days were treated with the Erlangen diamidine 98/202 (6-amidino-2-[4' amidino-phenyl] thionaphthene-dilacate) at either 5 mg/kg or 35 mg/kg. At both these dose levels the parasites were initially cleared from the circulation although the infections eventually relapsed due to reinvasion from the central nervous system. If the 98/202 therapy is followed by treatment with 5-nitroimidazole only a small number of mice are permanently cured. Adverse reactions, especially at the 35 mg/kg dose level, were noted in one experiment. The Erlangen diamidine given to infected mice three days after infection was able to permanently cure both Trypanosoma brucei stabilates.
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Jennings FW, Gray GD, Whitelaw DD. Chemotherapy of Trypanosoma brucei in mice with diminazene aceturate. Variation in the aparasitaemic period over 5 years. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PARASITENKUNDE (BERLIN, GERMANY) 1982; 67:337-40. [PMID: 6127848 DOI: 10.1007/bf00927669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Gray GD, Jennings FW, Hajduk SL. Relapse of monomorphic and pleomorphic Trypanosoma brucei infections in the mouse after chemotherapy. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PARASITENKUNDE (BERLIN, GERMANY) 1982; 67:137-45. [PMID: 6126053 DOI: 10.1007/bf00928109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Infections in mice were initiated with trypomastigotes from two lines of Trypanosoma brucei derived from the same primary isolated. Infections with one line were initiated by inoculation of metacyclic trypomastigotes from infected tsetse flies and the resulting infections were pleomorphic. The other line had been passaged 32 times in rodents and inoculation of bloodstream trypomastigotes gave rise to monomorphic infections. In both infections there were high levels of parasitaemia until death up to 4 weeks later if the infection was untreated. It was shown that after chemotherapy with 40 mg/kg diminazene aceturate (Berenil) relapses occurred in both types of infection after an aparasitaemic period of 2--3 weeks. Further, it was shown that 3 days after chemotherapy, brain tissue but neither spleen, liver nor blood was capable of transferring infection to normal recipient mice. There were two major differences in the response of the two infections to chemotherapy. First, treatment of the pleomorphic infection as soon as day 6 after infection resulted in a subsequent relapse while the monomorphic infection had to be at least 12 days old at the time of treatment before occurred. Second, following treatment of the pleomorphic, but not of the monomorphic infection there was an early transient recrudescence of low numbers of trypanosomes which were found to be non-infective to recipient mice. The early transient relapse was followed by a further aparasitaemic period and then the late continuous relapse characterised by large numbers of infective trypanosomes.
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Leach TM, Roberts CJ. Present status of chemotherapy and chemoprophylaxis of animal trypanosomiasis in the Eastern hemisphere. Pharmacol Ther 1981; 13:91-147. [PMID: 7022488 DOI: 10.1016/0163-7258(81)90069-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Jennings FW, Urquhart GM, Murray PK, Miller BM. 'Berenil' and nitroimidazole combinations in the treatment of Trypanosoma brucei infection with central nervous system involvement. Int J Parasitol 1980; 10:27-32. [PMID: 7372389 DOI: 10.1016/0020-7519(80)90060-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Poltera AA. Immunopathological and chemotherapeutic studies in experimental trypanosomiasis with special reference to the heart and brain. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1980; 74:706-15. [PMID: 7210124 DOI: 10.1016/0035-9203(80)90183-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Evans DA, Brightman CA. Pleomorphism and the problem of recrudescent parasitaemia following treatment with salicylhydroxamic acid (SHAM) in African trypanosomiasis. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1980; 74:601-4. [PMID: 7210111 DOI: 10.1016/0035-9203(80)90148-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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The curative action of a single dose of salicylhydroxamic acid (SHAM) in combination with glycerol was investigated in mice infected with a variety of monomorphic and pleomorphic African trypanosomes. The treatment of mice infected with monomorphic members of the sub-genus Trypanozoon was always successful and resulted in a complete cure. Treatment of animals with pleomorphic infections resulted in an initial clearance of the parasitaemia which later recrudesced. Both chronic and acute infections with Trypanosoma vivax were radically cured with SHAM plus glycerol, while infections with T. congolense and T. musculi were never cured.
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Nathan HC, Soto KV, Moreira R, Chunosoff L, Hutner SH, Bacchi CJ. Curative effects of the antipiroplasms amicarbalide and imidocarb on Trypanosoma brucei infection in mice. THE JOURNAL OF PROTOZOOLOGY 1979; 26:657-60. [PMID: 544802 DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1979.tb04215.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The babesicides imidocarb and amicarbalide, which have structural similarities to the antitrypanosomatid diamidines, proved active against Trypanosoma brucei mouse infections: both cured infections when doses were administered daily for 3 days 24 h post-inoculation (curative dose imidocarb, 10 mg/kg; amicarbalide, 25 mg/kg). Mice were considered cured after survival 30 days longer than untreated infected controls, with no trypanosomes present in blood or cerebrospinal fluid smears. Both agents also cured when administered 48 and 72 h after challenge with T. brucei and prolonged the lives of animals 94 h after challenge. The results are discussed in respect to the potential of these carbanilides and their precursors, the antitumor phthalanilides, as lead compounds in chemotherapy of mammalian trypanosomiases.
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Jennings FW, Whitelaw DD, Holmes PH, Chizyuka HG, Urquhart GM. The brain as a source of relapsing Trypanosoma brucei infection in mice after chemotherapy. Int J Parasitol 1979; 9:381-4. [PMID: 489242 DOI: 10.1016/0020-7519(79)90089-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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