{"id":638,"date":"2020-02-17T20:35:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicineplexus.com\/?p=638"},"modified":"2020-02-17T20:35:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:05:46","slug":"treatment-of-malaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicineplexus.com\/treatment-of-malaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Treatment of Malaria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Malaria<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As per latest WHO estimate.* ~ 2 I 6 million cases and ~ 0.445 million deaths occurred globally due to malaria in 2016, out of which 90% cases and deaths were in Africa and 7% in south-east Asia (including India).<\/p>\n\n\n\n National vector borne diseases control programme’ <\/strong>(NVBDCP) 2016\u00e0 reported 1.06 million confirned malaria cases in India, out of which nearly 50% were falciparum malaria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Quinine\u00e0 isolated from Cinchona bark<\/p>\n\n\n\n Clinical manifestation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Microscopy of stained thick and thin blood smears remains the gold standard <\/strong>for confirmation of diagnosis of malaria<\/p>\n\n\n\n OBJECTIVES AND USE OF ANTIMALARIAL DRUGS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The aims of using drugs in relation to malarial infection are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 To prevent clinical attack of malaria (prophylactic).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 To treat clinical attack of malaria (clinical curative).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 To completely eradicate the parasite from the patient’s body (radical curative).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 To cutdown human-to-mosquito transmission (gametocidal).<\/p>\n\n\n\n