Quinfamide

Quinfamide (WIN-40014) is an orally active class of dichloroacetyl derivative with significant anti-intestinal protozoan, particularly mmoeba histolytica activity. Quinfamide exhibits antiamoebic activity under solvent-free conditions with an IC50 of 28.15 μg/mL in a suspension condition. Quinfamide particles are actively engulfed by the amoebas, then cells are affected, and finally, amoebas are killed and lysed, and this process directly relies on the physical intake of the drug particles. Quinfamide can be used in the research of tropical parasitic infections such as amoebiasis and helminthiasis[1][2][3].