Media criticism of doctors: review of UK junior doctors' concerns raised in surveys.
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had a few convulsions but no impaired consciousness or other signs of severe malaria. On day 2 the parasitaemia was 4%. Treatment was changed to mefloquine, which was successful. His 4 year old brother, case 2, was febrile with 0.5% infected erythro-cytes. His symptoms resolved with atovaquone and proguanil hydrochloride, and the parasites were cleared after three days. On day 28 he was again febrile with P falciparum parasites and was successfully treated with mefloquine. The mother (case 3), although asymptomatic, had a few P falciparum rings. She was treated with atovaquone and proguanil hydrochloride, which cleared the parasites without recrudescence. Drug concentrations were measured by high pressure liquid chromatography in repeated serum samples. The concentrations of atovaquone (7.6-13.9 M), proguanil (300-1200 nM), and cycloguanil (125-400 nM) were all above the levels considered therapeutic in children and adults. 3 Treatment failure could therefore not be attributed to poor bioavailability of the drug. Cases 1 and 3 were infected with single clones whereas case 2 had five genetically diverse parasite populations, detected by analysis of merozoite surface proteins 1 and 2. Mutation A803G (changing tyrosine to serine in 268) in cytochrome b, related to resistance to atovaquone, was detected in cases 2 and 3 by polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism of loci 133, 268, 272, 275, 280, and 284, and confirmed by sequencing (table). 4 However, only wild types were found in case 1. Analyses of loci 51, 59, 108, and 164 in the dihydrofolate reductase gene, related to resistance to proguanil and cycloguanil, revealed wild types in all samples except those from case 2, in which triple mutation were found at recrudescence. 5 Comment Treatment of three patients with atovaquone and proguanil hydrochloride for P falciparum malaria was unsuccessful in two non-immune children but successful in an adult with probable partial protective immunity. The patients had adequate blood concentrations of the drugs, indicating resistance by P falciparum. Mutation in cytochrome b may have contributed to treatment failure but cannot be the only mechanism for resistance to the drug combination because it was also detected in the patient who responded well and was not detected in the patient with early treatment failure. Atovaquone and proguanil hydrochloride represents one of the main new developments in malaria chemotherapy, but because of the resistance shown at this early stage there is a need for careful surveillance of drug efficacy. Contributors: JL …
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- BMJ
دوره 326 7390 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003