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quinine is the old drug used to treat malaria. a newer drug called MEPRON is used as well. Mepron is also useful in treating the tick borne infection Babesia. To date there is no cure for malaria, it has a relapsing fever that can occur at any time.

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Generally treatment of malaria is by using antimalarials and not antibiotics.

But recent studies showed that azithromycin-chloroquine combinations that include the resistance reversal agent amlodipine, can specifically inhibit the biogenesis and inheritance of the apicoplast inPlasmodium liver stages, resulting in continued liver-stage maturation but subsequent failure to establish blood-stage infection. Exponential expansion of these attenuated liver-stage merozoites from a single sporozoite induces potent immune protection against malaria.

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chloroquinine. chloroquinine. chloroquinine.

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Many drugs.Some of which are chloroquin,Quinine,Mefloquine,Artemisine etc.

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There are several drugs that are used to treat malaria. of them are: Lariam (mefloquine) or chloroquinine

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Witch drug is best known for it's use in preventing malaria?

I'm not sure what drug is best known for preventing malaria, but you should know the difference between witch and which. Go back to 3rd grade.


Quinine was used as a drug to fight what?

B. Malaria


How is the esophagus affected by malaria?

Esophagus is not affected by malaria. You can get drug induced gastritis and then reflux esophagitis.


What the treatment for malaria?

The treatment for malaria depends with the type of malaria. There are two types of malaria: mild malaria and severe malaria. The severe malaria requires intravenous (IV) drug treatment and fluids in the hospital while mild malaria requires oral medication.


Which drug was onced used to fight malaria?

quinine


Are the eyeballs the only parts of the body that malaria affect?

Malaria does not affect your eye balls. You get problem in accommodation after taking the drug chloroquine.


What is the cure against malaria?

If the patient has P. vivax, P ovale, P. malariae, or has been in an area where there is no chloroquine resistance in P. falciparum, chloroquine is the best drug to use to treat malaria. If the patient is infected with P. vivax or P. ovale, primaquine needs to be given as well. This drug is able to kill the liver stages of the parasites, unlike chloroquine. If primaquine is not used, the chloroquine will cure the acute attack, but the dormant liver stages will be able to cause recurrences in the future. In cases where chloroquine resistant P. falciparum is suspected, either quinine, mefloquine, halofantrine or the artemesinins can be used. Parasites that are resistant to mefloquine are also often resistant to halofantrine. Mefloquine is also not licensed for use as treatment in South Africa. Halofantrine has been associated with cardiac side effects, and should not be used for routine treatment. Quinine was the first drug used to successfully treat malaria, and with increasing chloroquine resistance, it is making something of a "comeback". It is thought to be the best available agent for treating complicated chloroquine resistant falciparum malaria. Unfortunately, resistance to this drug is also being described. A new class of drug is the artemesinin derivatives. This drug has been known for centuries in China and is derived from the wormwood plant. It shows great potential in being able to treat resistant falciparum malaria, and has been used often in SE Asia. Unfortunately, resistance to this agent is also being described. When these drugs are used to treat malaria, they should be combined with a second agent to try and reduce the development of resistance.


How is malaria treated today?

Malaria is treated with a class of drugs which are known, unsurprisingly, as antimalarials. Antimalarial drugs are designed to attack the parasites which cause malaria, preventing them from spreading while also killing them off so that they cannot continue causing infection. The success of treatment varies, depending on what strain of malaria the patient has, whether or not the malaria is drug resistant, and whether or not the patient is able to complete the course of drugs needed to treat the malaria.


What drug use is in farcry2?

the only drug use i could think of is the medicine to recover and the pills to help with malaria


Teacher role in a school for preventing drug addiction and hiv?

The teacher's role in school for preventing drug addiction and HIV is issuing guiding and counseling and educating the students on the dangers of drug addiction and HIV.


What is an artesunate?

An artesunate is a drug, belonging to the artemisinin group, used to treat malaria.


Is mefloquine effective against cerebral malaria and how?

Mefloquine is effective against cerebral malaria. But you can not depend on this drug alone. There is no injection of mefloquine is available. It is available in tablet form. You have to give this drug by nasogastric tube in unconscious patient.