SnapShot: Antimalarial Drugs

Effectiveness of antimalarial drugs.

Effectiveness of antimalarial drugs.

The History of Antimalarial Drugs

Antimalarial drugs and glucose metabolism.

the diastereoisomer of quinine, can also cause this compliAn accurate and promptly-available blood or plasma glucose cation [2]. The 4-aminoquinoline chloroquine is known to concentration may, on its own, be very useful clinically but influence glucose metabolism in ways which could lead to is a limited measure of glucose tolerance in a patient with a low blood glucose concentrations [3, 4], al...

Comparing Highly Efficacious Antimalarial Drugs

Perspective I t is almost ten years since a clarion call was sounded to malaria researchers, funding agencies, governments, and international organisations to help avert " a malaria disaster " [1]. At that time, infrastructure in malaria control programmes across Africa was deteriorating. This deterioration was exacerbated by an alarmingly high prevalence of parasites resistant to the two affor...