Volume 21, Number 10—October 2015
Research
Induction of Multidrug Tolerance in Plasmodium falciparum by Extended Artemisinin Pressure
Table 1
Susceptibility of Plasmodium falciparum F32-ART5 and F32-TEM lineages to 10 antimalarial drugs*
Drug | F32-TEM |
F32-ART5 |
p value† | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
IC50 | IC90 | IC99 | IC50 | IC90 | IC99 | |||
Artemisinin | 14.2 (13–19.5) | 20.9 (16.3–26.4) | 29.2 (20.7–39.2) | 17.7 (14.2–21.9) | 31.2 (23–37.2) | 50.7 (37.2–63.3) | 0.686 | |
Artesunate | 3.9 (2.7–5.1) | 6.4 (4.7–7.9) | 11.1 (9.4–13.4) | 3.8 (3.2–5.6) | 6.1 (4.7–7.4) | 11.1 (7.7–13.4) | 0.886 | |
Artemisone | 0.6 (0.3–0.9) | 0.7 (0.5–0.9) | 0.9 (0.6–1.1) | 0.5 (0.3–0.6) | 1.2 (1.1–1.3) | 3.5 (3.3–3.8) | 1.000 | |
Artemether | 7.2 (7–7.5) | 9 (8.9–9.2) | 11.5 (11.2–11.7) | 7.2 (6.8–7.5) | 8.9 (8.7–9.2) | 11.4 (11.1–11.7) | 1.000 | |
Chloroquine | 32.9 (23.64–45.6) | 55.9 (42.9–58.7) | 66.2 (52.1–72.1) | 28.2 (24.9–33.5) | 46.2 (44.7–52.4) | 83.4 (76.8–100.5) | 0.886 | |
Quinine | 105.8 (77.8–136.1) | 302.7 (219.9–420.7) | 938 (718.5–1,482.5) | 118.8 (84.2–156.5) | 341.6 (259.7–421.5) | 1,026 (742.2–1,439) | 0.486 | |
Amodiaquine | 25.1 (17.1–33.1) | 53.1 (51.7–54.4) | 113.4 (88.7–138) | 29.6 (28.4–30.9) | 51.8 (47.5–56.2) | 78.05 (66.5–89.7) | 1.000 | |
Mefloquine | 68.2 (54.7–88.2) | 142.3 (130.9–159.6) | 312.9 (224–437) | 63.1 (59.4–73.1) | 114.1 (101–153.7) | 220.9 (161.6–448.5) | 0.886 | |
Pyrimethamine | 105.0 (90–120.1) | 184.6 (167.1–202.1) | 385.9 (288–483.8) | 74.7 (73.3–76.1) | 270.5 (268.7–272.3) | 1,102.6 (1,076–1,129) | 0.333 | |
Atovaquone | 2.8 (2–2.9) | 12.7 (10.8–15.8) | 95.8 (87.2–104) | 1.5 (0.4–3) | 7.5 (2.6–12.9) | 52.1 (31–64.6) | 0.486 |
*IC50, 50% inhibitory concentration; IC90, 90% inhibitory concentration; IC99, 99% inhibitory concentration. Values were obtained by using the standard isotopic susceptibility assay. Drug concentrations are in nanomoles/liter. Values are medians (25%–75% interquartile ranges). All assays were performed in triplicate.
†Data distribution was non-Gaussian. The p values were calculated by using nonparametric Mann-Whitney rank-sum test results for IC50s. Similar tests were performed to obtain IC90s and IC99s, and no differences were observed between F32-ART5 and F32-TEM for any drug tested.
1Current affiliation: Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
2Current affiliation: Institut Pasteur, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.