Establishment of novel in vitro assay for evaluation of killing effect of chloroquine against malaria parasite

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After completing the first step of confirming the chloroquine parasiticidal effect using the laboratory cultured standard strains: chloroquine sensitive (HB3) and resistant parasites: Dd2 (Southeast Asian origin) and 7G8 (South American origin) according to the method of a previous study (Paguio, Mol Biochem Parasitol 2011), the next step was to verify the parasiticidal chloroquine effect using cryopreserved natural parasites recovered from Uganda field site. First by recovering cryopreserved field natural uganda parasites and adapt them to continuous culture in the laboratory. Once successful then perform chloroquine cytocidal drug assay.Last year, parasite recovery and adaptation into culture failed because the used parasites had been collected in EDTA that hindered parasite growth. We changed the protocol to collect fresh parasite isolates in ACD-A that supports parasite growth.From Feburary-March 2022 and October-November 2022, two field surveys have been completed in Uganda and 135 fresh parasite isolates (29 in Feb-March 2022 and 106 in Oct-Nov 2022) have been collected. The cryopreserved parasites have been shipped from Uganda to Japan. Parasite recovery and adaptation of these field parasites into continuous culture is ongoing.