2006-12-15 20:32:11 · 4 answers · asked by mobasher272 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Malaria is infection with any of 4 species of Plasmodium. Symptoms are fever, which may be periodic, chills, sweating, hemolytic anemia, and splenomegaly. Diagnosis is by seeing Plasmodium in a peripheral blood smear. Treatment and prophylaxis depend on the species and drug sensitivity and include chloroquine, quinine, atovaquone and proguanil, mefloquine, doxycycline, and artemisinin derivatives. Patients infected with P. vivax and P. ovale also receive primaquine.
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2006-12-15 20:56:24 · answer #1 · answered by gangadharan nair 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where are you, and which medicine? Chloroquine, quinine and amodiaquine are cheaper than pyrimethamine-sulphamethoxazole, halofantrine, mefloquine and artemether. The resistance of the plasmodium in that particular community and the type of plasmodium i.e. vivax or falciparum should also be taken into consideration.
2006-12-16 12:38:14 · answer #2 · answered by yakkydoc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends on where you are from. find 'primaquine'. or 'quinine'.
malaria is not endemic in some parts of the world.
2006-12-16 04:38:50 · answer #3 · answered by the elf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
death..
2006-12-16 04:36:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋