Fig. 1.

Culture treatment assays under aerobic (A) and anaerobic (B) conditions (oxygen concentration < 0.3%); E. multilocularis protoscoleces were treated with atovaquone, mefloquine, 3-bromopyruvic acid, and their combination at a final concentration of 50 μM in each culture medium. Viability of protoscoleces was evaluated by their ability to exclude trypan blue. Protoscoleces were counted in triplicate from day 0 to day 7. Statistical analysis was performed by mean of viability (%), and the standard deviation of triplicate samples was indicated by error bars. Rotenone was added as a positive control. Raw data tables are available as supplementary material.