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Treatment of malaria

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Chloroquine still remains the drug of choice for the treatment of malaria. Due to incipient resistance in P. falciparum to chloroquine, the dose of the drug has to be increased. Diagnosis of the species of parasite is thus important. In chloroquine resistant P. falciparum cases, long acting sulfonamide with pyrimethamine is at present capable of terminating acute P. falciparum infection. In cerebral malaria, where the susceptibility status of the parasite is not known, intravenous quinine is indicated. In situations where the transmission of malaria remains un-interrupted, suppressive chloroquine is not advocated. Personal prophylaxis is indicated. Caution is to be excercised in the use of primaquine which is a relatively toxic drug for the treatment of relapse of P. vivax cases where transmission of malaria remains uninterrupted. The random use of combination of long acting sulfonamide and pyrimethamine is discouraged.

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  1. Malaria Research Centre, Indian Council of Medical Research, 22 Sham Nath Marg, 110054, Delhi

    D. S. Choudhury M.B.B.S., M.P.H. (Deputy Director)

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  1. D. S. Choudhury M.B.B.S., M.P.H.
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Choudhury, D.S. Treatment of malaria. Indian J Pediatr 52, 275–280 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02754857

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