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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, September 2008, p. 3447-3450, Vol. 52, No. 9
0066-4804/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.00553-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

In Vitro and In Vivo Treatments of Echinococcus Protoscoleces and Metacestodes with Artemisinin and Artemisinin Derivatives{triangledown}

Martin Spicher,1* Carole Roethlisberger,1 Catharina Lany,2 Britta Stadelmann,1 Jennifer Keiser,3 Luis M. Ortega-Mora,4 Bruno Gottstein,1 and Andrew Hemphill1*

Institute of Parasitology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Länggass-Strasse 122, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland,1 Institute of Animal Pathology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Länggass-Strasse 122, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland,2 Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical Institute, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland,3 Grupo SALUVET, Departamento de Sanidad Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain4

Received 29 April 2008/ Returned for modification 6 June 2008/ Accepted 3 July 2008

In vitro treatment of Echinococcus multilocularis and Echinococcus granulosus larval stages with the antimalarials dihydroartemisinin and artesunate (10 to 40 µM) exhibited promising results, while 6 weeks of in vivo treatment of mice infected with E. multilocularis metacestodes (200 mg/kg of body weight/day) had no effect. However, combination treatments of both drugs with albendazole led to a substantial but statistically not significant reduction in parasite weight compared to results with albendazole alone.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institute of Parasitology, University of Bern, Länggass-Strasse 122, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland. Phone: 41 31 6312384. Fax: 41 31 6312477. E-mail for Andrew Hemphill: andrew.hemphill{at}ipa.unibe.ch. E-mail for Martin Spicher: martin.spicher{at}ipa.unibe.ch

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 14 July 2008.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, September 2008, p. 3447-3450, Vol. 52, No. 9
0066-4804/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.00553-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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