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C Burri

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Efficacy of 10-day melarsoprol schedule 2 years after treatment for late-stage gambiense sleeping sickness.

In 2000, we reported that a new short treatment schedule of melarsoprol was not worse than the longer and demanding standard treatment for late-stage human African trypanosomiasis. This alternative schedule was assessed in an open, randomised clinical equivalence trial of 500 patients in Angola. 24 h after treatment, all patients were parasite free. Of 442 patients, 12 (3%) had relapsed after 1 year, of whom seven (3%) had had standard treatment and five (2%) the alternative treatment. After 2 years, 23 (5%) relapsing patients were reported, 11 (5%) in the standard treatment group and 12 (6%) in the new group. The results at the 2-year follow-up support and strengthen our previous findings.

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Pharmacokinetic properties of the trypanocidal drug melarsoprol.

With a biological assay and atomic absorption spectrometry we determined the level of melarsoprol in the serum and cerebrospinal fluid of 19 patients treated with melarsoprol in Daloa, Ivory Coast. Most serum levels were between 2 and 4 micrograms/ml 24 h after administration, and were still > or = 0.1 microgram/ml after 120 h. Levels in the cerebrospinal fluid were between 0 and 0.1 microgram/ml. Elimination was biphasic, with a pronounced beta 1 phase. Mean terminal elimination half-life of melarsoprol was about 35 h, volume of distribution was about 100 l and total clearance was about 50 ml/min. The results of these first pharmacokinetic studies on melarsoprol were used to simulate possible alternative therapy schemes which might avoid some of the problems that arise with melarsoprol use.

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