EVALUATION OF ANTIMALARIAL COMPOUNDS IN MOSQUITO TEST SYSTEMS
EVALUATION OF ANTIMALARIAL COMPOUNDS IN MOSQUITO TEST SYSTEMS
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DOI:
10.1016/0035-9203(71)90014-9
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发表时间:
1971-01-01
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
GERBERG, EJ
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作者:
GERBERG, EJ
A screening technique is described to test compounds for sporontocidal activity against plasmodia. The method is reported as rapid (results in 14 days), cheap (only a few mg of drug are required), and reliable. The test will select only those compounds that inhibit sporogony. FemaleAedes aegyptimosquitoes andPlasmodium gallinaceumin chicks,Anopheles stephensiwith eitherP. cynomolgiin rhesus monkeys orP. falciparumin volunteers, were used as experimental models. Cages of 40 three-day-oldAe. aegyptimosquitoes were allowed to feed for 2 days on a 10% sucrose solution containing a known control drug, proguanil, a candidate compound at 0.1% to 0.00001% concentration, or an untreated sucrose control, then starved for 2 days. The mosquitoes were then allowed to feed on an infected chick after which the sucrose-drug mixture was replaced. After 9 days some mosquitoes were removed, the gut examined for oöcysts and the salivary glands for sporozoites.When primate or human malaria infections were used,A. stephensiwere fed on an infected host, then sucrose solutions with or without drug were available until day 14, except for short time periods when supplementary normal blood meals were given. Representative mosquito samples were removed on day 14, dissected and examined for the presence of oôcysts and sporozoites. The presence or absence of sporozoites was considered as the main criterion.More than 80000 compounds were tested over a 3-year period and in one year 5% of the compounds showed some antimalarial activity. TheA. stephensi/P. cynomolgisystem andA. stephensi/P. falciparumappear equal in sensitivity and both are superior toAe aegypti/P. gallinaceum.Only the results of standard antimalarials are given; active schizontocides, such as chloroquine, quinine and mepacrine had little or no activity, whereas two standard prophylactic drugs, proguanil and pyrimethamine, gave complete suppression of oöcysts at a concentration of 0.01 %, and pyrimethamine completely suppressed sporozoite development in the mosquito at a level of 00001%.W. H. G. Richards.