Defining the Antimalarial Activity of Cipargamin in Healthy Volunteers Experimentally Infected with Blood-Stage Plasmodium falciparum
| Autor: | J. Prakash Jain, Azrin N Abd-Rahman, Paul M. Griffin, Katharine A. Collins, Cornelis Winnips, Katalin Csermak-Renner, Anne Kümmel, James S. McCarthy, P. Gandhi, Vishal Mishra, Aline Fuchs, Louise Marquart |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Plasmodium falciparum 030231 tropical medicine malaria Parasitemia Clinical Therapeutics Pharmacology Antimalarials 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pharmacokinetics Piperaquine parasitic diseases Spiroindolone Gametocyte Animals Humans Medicine Spiro Compounds Pharmacology (medical) Antimalarial Agent antimalarial agents Malaria Falciparum 0303 health sciences biology 030306 microbiology business.industry medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Healthy Volunteers Infectious Diseases Liver function business |
| Zdroj: | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy |
| ISSN: | 1098-6596 0066-4804 |
| DOI: | 10.1128/aac.01423-20 |
| Popis: | The spiroindolone cipargamin, a new antimalarial compound that inhibits Plasmodium ATP4, is currently in clinical development. This study aimed to characterize the antimalarial activity of cipargamin in healthy volunteers experimentally infected with blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum. The spiroindolone cipargamin, a new antimalarial compound that inhibits Plasmodium ATP4, is currently in clinical development. This study aimed to characterize the antimalarial activity of cipargamin in healthy volunteers experimentally infected with blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum. Eight subjects were intravenously inoculated with parasite-infected erythrocytes and received a single oral dose of 10 mg cipargamin 7 days later. Blood samples were collected to monitor the development and clearance of parasitemia and plasma cipargamin concentrations. Parasite regrowth was treated with piperaquine monotherapy to clear asexual parasites, while allowing gametocyte transmissibility to mosquitoes to be investigated. An initial rapid decrease in parasitemia occurred in all participants following cipargamin dosing, with a parasite clearance half-life of 3.99 h. As anticipated from the dose selected, parasite regrowth occurred in all 8 subjects 3 to 8 days after dosing and allowed the pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic relationship to be determined. Based on the limited data from the single subtherapeutic dose cohort, a MIC of 11.6 ng/ml and minimum parasiticidal concentration that achieves 90% of maximum effect of 23.5 ng/ml were estimated, and a single 95-mg dose (95% confidence interval [CI], 50 to 270) was predicted to clear 109 parasites/ml. Low gametocyte densities were detected in all subjects following piperaquine treatment, which did not transmit to mosquitoes. Serious adverse liver function changes were observed in three subjects, which led to premature study termination. The antimalarial activity characterized in this study supports the further clinical development of cipargamin as a new treatment for P. falciparum malaria, although the hepatic safety profile of the compound warrants further evaluation. (This study has been registered at ClinicalTrials.gov under identifier NCT02543086.) |
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