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What was the first drug available to use against parasitic infection?
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∙ 13y ago
For hundreds of years, quinine from the Peruvian cinchona tree was the only drug known to be effective for treating a parasitic infection (malaria). Quinine is still used today, but synthetic derivatives, such as choloroquine, have largely replaced it.
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