The Treatment of Malaria

Abstract

Malaria is the world's most important parasitic infection. Although it has been eradicated from temperate zones, increasing numbers of travelers from temperate areas each year visit tropical countries, where the disease remains a major cause of morbidity and death. The treatment of malaria has changed over the past two decades in response to declining drug sensitivity in Plasmodium falciparum and a resurgence of the disease in tropical areas. This review will concentrate on the practical aspects of treatment.DiagnosisPatients with malaria usually present with nonspecific and irregular fever, chills, headache, and malaise. Vomiting occurs in approximately 20 percent of . . .