acedapsone

noun

acedapsone

noun

Etymology Blend of acetate + dapsone.

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Medicine, Pharmacology, Sciences An antimicrobial drug that is used to treat leprosy.

We report here the successful use of a new repository sulphone, acedapsone, in a field trial in Micronesia, both for the treatment of active leprosy cases and for the prevention of leprosy in an exposed, highly susceptible population.1971 September 4, The Lancet, volume 2, number 7723, page 525:
In the 1960s and 1970s chemoprophylaxis with dapsone and acedapsone was investigated.2010, Roger G. Finch, Antibiotic and Chemotherapy, page 479:

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The more intense effect arises, of course, from the relatively facile non-enzymatic hydrolysis of these compounds as opposed to the enzyme-dependent hydrolysis of acedapsone.2011, R. M. Pinder, “Recent advances in the chemotherapy of malaria”, in Progress in Medicinal Chemistry, volume 8:

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