In vitro Screening of Compounds against Laboratory and Field Isolates of Human Hookworm Reveals Quantitative Differences in Anthelmintic Susceptibility

Rebecca S. Treger Department of Pediatrics and Program in International Child Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana; Chemical Genomics Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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Joseph Otchere Department of Pediatrics and Program in International Child Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana; Chemical Genomics Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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Martin F. Keil Department of Pediatrics and Program in International Child Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana; Chemical Genomics Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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Josephine E. Quagraine Department of Pediatrics and Program in International Child Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana; Chemical Genomics Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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Ganesha Rai Department of Pediatrics and Program in International Child Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana; Chemical Genomics Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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Bryan T. Mott Department of Pediatrics and Program in International Child Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana; Chemical Genomics Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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Debbie L. Humphries Department of Pediatrics and Program in International Child Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana; Chemical Genomics Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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Michael Wilson Department of Pediatrics and Program in International Child Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana; Chemical Genomics Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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Michael Cappello Department of Pediatrics and Program in International Child Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana; Chemical Genomics Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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Jon J. Vermeire Department of Pediatrics and Program in International Child Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana; Chemical Genomics Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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A panel of 80 compounds was screened for anthelmintic activity against a laboratory strain of Ancylostoma ceylanicum and field isolates of hookworm obtained from school children in the Kintampo North District of the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. Although the laboratory strain of A. ceylanicum was more susceptible to the compounds tested than the field isolates of hookworm, a twofold increase in compound concentration resulted in comparable egg hatch percent inhibition for select compounds. These data provide evidence that the efficacy of anthelmintic compounds may be species-dependent and that field and laboratory strains of hookworm differ in their sensitivities to the anthelmintics tested. These data also suggest that both compound concentration and hookworm species must be considered when screening to identify novel anthelmintic compounds.

Author Notes

* Address correspondence to Jon J. Vermeire, UCSF Department of Pathology, QB3 Room 501e, Box 2550, 1700 4th Street, San Francisco, CA 94143-2550. E-mail: jon.vermeire@yale.edu

Financial support: This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Chemical Genomics Center Contract HHSN268201000217P (to M.C. and J.J.V.), National Institutes of Health Career Development Award K22 A08476 (to J.J.V.), the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, and the Yale–Ghana Partnership in Global Health.

Authors' addresses: Rebecca S. Treger, Department of Pediatrics and Program in International Child Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, E-mail: rebecca.treger@yale.edu. Joseph Otchere, Josephine E. Quagraine, and Michael Wilson, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, E-mails: jotchere@noguchi.mimcom.org, jquagraine@noguchi.mimcom.org, and mwilson@noguchi.mimcom.org. Martin F. Keil and Debbie L. Humphries, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, E-mails: martin.keil@yale.edu and debbie.humphries@yale.edu. Ganesha Rai and Bryan T. Mott, National Institutes of Health Chemical Genomics Center, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, E-mails: bantukallug@mail.nih.gov and bryan.mott@nih.gov. Michael Cappello and Jon J. Vermeire, Yale Child Health Research Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT, E-mails: michael.cappello@yale.edu and jon.vermeire@yale.edu.

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