Basco L K, Dechy-Cabaret O, Ndounga M, Meche F S, Robert A, Meunier B
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement-Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Paludisme, Organisation de Coordination pour la lutte contre les Endémies en Afrique Centrale (OCEAC), Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2001 Jun;45(6):1886-8. doi: 10.1128/AAC.45.6.1886-1888.2001.
The antimalarial trioxaquine derivative DU-1102, synthesized by covalent linkage between aminoquinoline and trioxane moieties, was highly active against Cameroonian isolates (mean 50% inhibitory concentration of 43 nmol/liter) of Plasmodium falciparum. There was no correlation between the responses to DU-1102 and chloroquine and only a low correlation between the responses to DU-1102 and pyrimethamine, suggesting an independent mode of action of the trioxaquine against the parasites.