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. 2010 Dec 6;55(3):961–966. doi: 10.1128/AAC.01220-10

TABLE 2.

Overall ex vivo drug susceptibility for each drug according to the species tested

Antimalarial Mean IC50 (nM) for P. falciparum lab linesa
P. falciparum
P. vivax
CQs CQr n (%)b Median IC50(nM) (range) n (%) Median IC50(nM) (range)
Chloroquine 12 240 20 (100) 30.2 (6.4-97.1) 20 (100) 40.4 (8.8-81.4)
Amodiaquine 2 8 20 (100) 5.0 (1.0-28.6) 19 (95) 9.1 (2.8-16.0)
Piperaquine 3 11 20 (100) 10.8 (4.4-46.9) 20 (100) 13.2 (3.4-38.4)
Mefloquine 11 8 19 (95) 6.3 (1.7-21.3) 18 (90) 7.7 (1.5-23.2)
Artesunate 2 1 20 (100) 0.92 (0.31-4.1) 20 (100) 0.74 (0.09-1.42)
SAHA 247 161 19 (95) 301 (120-484) 20 (100) 170 (67-281)
2-ASA-9 15 39 15 (75)c 533 (199-964) 19 (95) 503 (203-766)
2-ASA-14 13 33 18 (90)d 266 (87-704) 20 (100) 278 (121-781)
a

Mean IC50s (in vitro growth quantified by [3H]hypoxanthine incorporation) as previously published for chloroquine (8, 9), amodiaquine (1, 19), piperaquine (1, 30), mefloquine (1, 10), artesunate (1, 10) (the chloroquine-sensitive and -resistant lines were 3D7 and K1, respectively), SAHA (12), 2-ASA-9 (2), and 2-ASA-14 (2) (the chloroquine-sensitive and -resistant laboratory lines, respectively, were D6 and W2 for SAHA and 3D7 and Dd2 for 2-ASA-9 and 2-ASA-14). CQs, chloroquine-sensitive laboratory strain; CQr, chloroquine-resistant laboratory strain.

b

n, total number of assays with acceptable IC50; %, total number of assays with acceptable IC50/number of assays with adequate growth harvested.

c

No IC50 estimates of 2-ASA-9 for four P. falciparum isolates and one P. vivax isolate (MIC > 1,000 nM).

d

No IC50 estimate of 2-ASA-14 for one P. falciparum isolate (MIC > 1,000 nM).