1 1 Antimalarial drug mefloquine kills both trophozoite and cyst stages of Entamoeba 2 3 Mefloquine and Entamoeba histolytica 4 5 6 Conall Sauvey 1 , Gretchen Ehrenkaufer 2 , Anjan Debnath 1 , Ruben Abagyan 1* 7 8 1 Center for Discovery and Innovation in Parasitic Diseases, Skaggs School for Pharmacy and 9 Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA 10 2 Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Stanford University School of 11 Medicine, Stanford, California, USA 12 13 14 * Corresponding author 15 Email: [email protected] 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 . CC-BY 4.0 International license under a not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available The copyright holder for this preprint (which was this version posted December 20, 2018. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/501999 doi: bioRxiv preprint