BRAINCAKETreatment, Prevention and Control of Malaria
Treatment. Malaria is treated with antimalarial drugs that kill the parasites in the blood. The WHO recommends artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), which combine an artemisinin drug with a second drug that works in a different way. Using two drugs together makes resistance much less likely to evolve, because a parasite would need resistance to both. Older drugs such as chloroquine are now ineffective against P. falciparum in most areas because of resistance. Severe malaria is treated with injected artesunate. P. vivax and P. ovale infections also need primaquine to kill the dormant liver stages.
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Key terms in this lesson
- endemic
- Describes a disease that is consistently present in a particular population or region at a broadly constant, expected level.
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