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Simultaneous quantitative analysis of the antimalarials pyrimethamine and sulfamethoxypyrazine in plasma samples using liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry.

The work presented here deals with the development of a quantitative tool for the simultaneous determination of sulfamethoxypyrazine (sulfalene)/pyrimethamine in plasma. The chromatography used only takes 12.5 min, allowing a fast sample turnover time. Relative standard deviation of retention times was never above 3.48% (n=66). Adequate sample clean-up was achieved by a simple and relatively fast liquid/liquid extraction. In this way, ionisation suppression effects, typical for more simple sample clean-up procedures, could be avoided resulting in absolute plasma effects of maximum -17.1% for sulfalene, -16.1 for the internal standard (IS), and 12% for pyrimethamine. For both pyrimethamine and sulfalene, quadratic calibration curves from 0.00101 to 0.807 microg/mL for pyrimethamine and from 0.271 to 216 microg/mL for sulfalene gave the best fit. Mean coefficients of determination (R(2)) were 0.9951 (n=6, CV% 0.39) for pyrimethamine and 0.9942 (n=6, CV% 0.13) for sulfalene. Precision was below 9.35% for pyrimethamine and 13.9% for sulfalene. Inaccuracy remained below 15% at all cases. The optimised method was used for a time-course study of the sulfalene/pyrimethamine combination concentration in plasma of patients treated with Co-Arinate(R), a new curative antimalaria-medicine. Copyright (c) 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.[1]

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