Artesunate as a potent antiviral agent in a patient with late drug-resistant cytomegalovirus infection after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

  • Michael Y. Shapira
  • , Igor B. Resnick
  • , Sunwen Chou
  • , Avidan U. Neumann
  • , Nell S. Lurain
  • , Thomas Stamminger
  • , Orit Caplan
  • , Niveen Saleh
  • , Thomas Efferth
  • , Manfred Marschall
  • , Dana G. Wolf

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Abstract

This is the first report of treatment of cytomegalovirus infection with artesunate, for a stem cell transplant recipient with a newly identified foscarnet-resistant and ganciclovir-resistant DNA polymerase L776M mutation. Artesunate treatment resulted in a 1.7-2.1-log reduction in viral load by treatment day 7, with a viral half-life of 0.9-1.9 days, indicating a highly effective block in viral replication.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1455-1457
Number of pages3
JournalClinical Infectious Diseases
Volume46
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 May 2008

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Financial support. Israeli Ministry of Science, Israel Science Foundation, and National Institutes of Health (AI39938). Potential conflict of interest. All authors: no conflicts

Funding

Financial support. Israeli Ministry of Science, Israel Science Foundation, and National Institutes of Health (AI39938). Potential conflict of interest. All authors: no conflicts

FundersFunder number
Israeli Ministry of Science, Israel Science Foundation
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesR01AI039938

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