Antimicrobial Chemotherapy – Antimalarial Drugs

Chloroquine is given as 600 mg loading dose because:

Radical cure is required for malaria caused by:

Radical cure of Plasmodium vivax is by:

Drug of choice for treatment of malaria due to P. vivax in a 25 year old pregnant female is:

Chemoprophylaxis in an Englishman visiting chloroquine and mefloquine resistant malaria region is done with:

The development of resistance to conventional treatment has led WHO to recommend the use of combination therapies containing artemisinin derivative (artemisinin-based combination therapies also known as ACTs). All of the following combination therapies are recommended if such resistance is suspected, except:

Which of the following drugs can be used for the treatment of chloroquine resistant malaria in children?

Drug of choice in a patient with severe complicated falciparum malaria is:

Which of the following can cause hypoglycemia in a patient of severe cerebral malaria on treatment?

Which antimalarial drug is known to cause neuropsychiatric adverse reaction?

Drug of choice for the treatment of a pregnant woman with P vivax malaria is:

Absorption of which of the following anti-malarial drug increases with food intake?

Drug of choice for treatment of chloroquine resistant falciparum malaria is:

Drug of choice for chloroquine resistant malaria in pregnancy is:

Which one of the following antimalarial drugs is safe for use in pregnancy?

Choose the drug whose single oral dose affords clinical cure of uncomplicated malaria caused by chloroquine sensitive/resistant P. falciparum as well as P. vivax:

First line drug for falciparum malaria in pregnancy is:

Tissue schizontocide which prevents relapse of vivax malaria is:

Which one of the following drug may be used for prevention of relapse of P. vivax infection:

Which of the following antimalarial drugs is a slow acting schizonticide?