Is chloroquine a Gametocidal?
Is chloroquine a Gametocidal?
Chloroquine acts primarily against erythrocytic asexual stages, although it has gametocidal properties. Because of widespread resistance to this drug, its usefulness is increasingly limited. Where chloroquine retains efficacy it can be safely used for treatment or prophylaxis of infants and pregnant women.
Does malaria have an antibiotic?
It is available in tablets, capsules, and an oral liquid formulation. Two equally effective types of doxycycline are available, doxycycline hyclate and doxycycline monohydrate. Doxycycline can be prescribed by itself for the prevention of malaria or in combination with another medicine for treatment of malaria.
Which of the following is Gametocidal antimalarial drug?
Quinine (Qualaquin) Quinine is a blood schizonticidal drug and is still the drug of choice for severe and complicated malaria in most parts of the world. It is gametocidal for P vivax and P malariae but not for P falciparum. It is available as tablets containing 260 mg and as injections containing 300 mg/mL.
How malaria is transmitted from one person to another?
Malaria spreads when a mosquito becomes infected with the disease after biting an infected person, and the infected mosquito then bites a noninfected person. The malaria parasites enter that person’s bloodstream and travel to the liver. When the parasites mature, they leave the liver and infect red blood cells.
Why is malaria not a communicable disease?
No, malaria is not contagious. Malaria is not spread from person to person and is not sexually transmitted.
Can erythromycin treat malaria?
The worldwide spread of chloroquine-resistant P. falciparum might inhibit the ability to treat malaria patients with chloroquine-azithromycin and chloroquine-erythromycin in areas of drug-resistant. The best drug combinations against multidrug-resistant P. falciparum are quinine-azithromycin and quinine-erythromycin.
Is pyrimethamine a Schizonticide?
This activity is highly selective against plasmodia and Toxoplasma gondii. Pyrimethamine possesses blood schizonticidal and some tissue schizonticidal activity against malaria parasites of humans.
