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antimalarial drug
(redirected from Antimalarial agent)

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Noun1.antimalarial drug - a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malariaantimalarial drug - a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria
antiprotozoal, antiprotozoal drug - a medicinal drug used to fight diseases (like malaria) that are caused by protozoa
chloroquine - an antimalarial drug used to treat malaria and amebic dysentery and systemic lupus erythematosus
Larium, mefloquine, mefloquine hydrochloride, Mephaquine - an antimalarial drug (trade name Larium and Mephaquine) that is effective in cases that do not respond to chloroquine; said to produce harmful neuropsychiatric effects on some people
primaquine - synthetic antimalarial drug
Atabrine, mepacrine, quinacrine, quinacrine hydrochloride - a drug (trade name Atabrine) used to treat certain worm infestations and once used to treat malaria
quinine - a bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark; used in malaria therapy


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Byline: ANI Washington, Feb 28 (ANI): Achieving a milestone in the fight against malaria, scientists at Amyris Biotechnologies have produced 25 g/L of amorphadiene, a precursor of the antimalarial agent artemisinin, by using synthetic biology and E.
Drawing on the Plasmodium Genome Database, international multidisciplinary contributors to 27 chapters review the latest understanding of its genetics, the host-parasite relationship, immune system invasion and responses, and mechanism of antimalarial agents.
However because of the risk of recrudescence, it has to be combined with other antimalarial agents.
 
 
 
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