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Use in Treatment of Chloroquine-Resistant Falciparum Malaria

Lt Col Thomas W. Sheehy, MC; Maj Richard C. Reba, MC; Capt Thomas A. Neff, MC; Capt J. Richard Gaintner, MC; Col William D. Tigertt, MC

Arch Intern Med. 1967;119(6):561-566.

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Shortly SHORTLY after the antimalarial activity of the parent sulfone dapsone was discovered, the drug was discarded as too toxic for human use.^1-4 This occurred at the time when it was assumed that the amount of sulfone necessary for treatment was similar to that used with the sulfa drugs, ie, 1 to 2 gm daily. As a result, total doses of 36 and 16 gm of dapsone were administered over periods as short as nine days in the first human trials of dapsone as an antimalarial agent.^5,6 In both clinical trials, dapsone was effective against Plasmodium falciparum, but later reports of its toxicity^1-4 and the successful introduction of the 4-aminoquinoline drugs led to abandonment of dapsone as an antimalarial drug.

In 1949, dapsone was introduced for the treatment of leprosy,7 and soon after small daily doses of dapsone were found to be therapeutically effective and relatively non-toxic (ie, 100 mg or . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
USA; USA; USA; USA; USA, Republic of Vietnam

From the Walter Reed General Hospital, Walter Reed Army Medical Center (Dr. Sheehy), and the Walter Reed Institute of Research, Washington, DC, (Dr. Tigertt); the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (Dr. Reba), and the Department of Hematology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore (Dr. Gaintner); and the Department of Hospital Clinics, Fitzsimmons General Hospital, Denver (Dr. Neff). Dr. Sheehy formerly medical consultant, US Army; Drs. Reba, Neff, and Gaintner are formerly of the 85th Evacuation Hospital, Republic of Vietnam.

Footnotes
Received for publication Nov 2, 1966; accepted, Feb 1, 1967.

Reprint requests to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20012 (Dr. Sheehy).

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