A report on Malaria, Quinine and Chloroquine
Quinine is a medication used to treat malaria and babesiosis.- Quinine
Chloroquine is a medication primarily used to prevent and treat malaria in areas where malaria remains sensitive to its effects.- Chloroquine
This includes the treatment of malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum that is resistant to chloroquine when artesunate is not available.- Quinine
Quinine, along with doxycycline, may be used if artemisinin is not available.- Malaria
Resistance among the parasites has developed to several antimalarial medications; for example, chloroquine-resistant P. falciparum has spread to most malarial areas, and resistance to artemisinin has become a problem in some parts of Southeast Asia.- Malaria
It and related quinines have been associated with cases of retinal toxicity, particularly when provided at higher doses for longer times.- Chloroquine
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Plasmodium falciparum is a unicellular protozoan parasite of humans, and the deadliest species of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans.
Gize (1816) studied the extraction of crystalline quinine from the cinchona bark and Pelletier and Caventou (1820) in France extracted pure quinine alkaloids, which they named quinine and cinchonine.
In the late 1930s, the Germans developed chloroquine, which went into use in the North African campaigns.