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The relationship between duration of infection with Trypanosoma brucei in mice and the efficacy of chemotherapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

F. W. Jennings ,
D. D. Whitelaw  and
G. M. Urquhart
F. W. Jennings
Affiliation:
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, Bearsden Road, Gloasgow G61 1QH.
D. D. Whitelaw
Affiliation:
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, Bearsden Road, Gloasgow G61 1QH.
G. M. Urquhart
Affiliation:
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, Bearsden Road, Gloasgow G61 1QH.
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Relapse of infection after drug treatment of trypanosome infections under conditions precluding re-infection has usually been ascribed to drug resistance on the part of the parasite or to under-dosage of the drug. With Trypanosoma brucei infection in mice we have obtained evidence of another type of relapse. In infections resulting from the inoculation of 1 × 105 trypanosomes, derived from a stabilate T. brucei TREU 667, treatment with diminazene aceturate (Berenil) at 40 mg/kg at either 3 or 7 days after infection elicited a permanent cure. If, however, treatment was delayed later than 14 days after infection, then all the mice relapsed. These relapses generally occurred between 20 and 50 days after treatment, but some mice remained aparasitaemic for up to 60 days. The relapsed infections were apparently not due to the survival of ‘drug-resistant’ trypanosomes, as infections derived from a stabilate isolated from a relapsed Berenil-treated mouse were also permanently cured with Berenil if treated 3 days after infection; however, if treatment was delayed until 21 days post-infection, all the mice relapsed. The cause of relapse was not related to the number of parasites inoculated, as infection resulting from initial inocula of 1 × 105 to 1 × 108 trypanosomes were all cured if treated at 3 days after infection, and all eventually relapsed if treatment was delayed until day 21. This type of relapse phenomenon was not confined to T. brucei TREU 667 but also occurred with 5 other stabi-lates of T. brucei after Berenil treatment. Treatment of T. brucei TREU 667 infections with Ethidium and Prothidium at dose levels of 7.5 and 10 mg/kg respectively was also followed by relapse if treatment was delayed for 3 weeks after infection. The possible causes of relapse under these conditions, and its implications in the study of the natural disease, are discussed.

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Parasitology , Volume 75 , Issue 2 , October 1977 , pp. 143 - 153
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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