background: malaria remains the world’s most devastating human parasitic infection. our goal was to assess the capacity of increasing concentrations of five antimalarial drugs (fansidartm, halfantm, quinine, coartemtm and chloroquine phosphate) to elicit the generation of methemoglobin in three human erythrocyte genotypes (hb aa, hb as and hb ss). materials and methods: spectrophotometric metho...
