Treatment of an Acute Case of Plasmodium Malariae Malaria with Mefloquine

Kenneth E. Dixon USA Medical Component, Armed Forces Research Institute of the Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

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Utit Pitaktong USA Medical Component, Armed Forces Research Institute of the Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

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Samroeng Bamnetpandh USA Medical Component, Armed Forces Research Institute of the Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1983.32.631
Volume/Issue:
Volume 32: Issue 3
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631–632
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Mefloquine, a new antimalarial which has been effective in curing malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax, was used for the first time in a patient infected with P. malariae. Treatment was successful, and the relatively long parasite clearance time and fever clearance time were probably characteristic of P. malariae rather than true drug resistance.

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Address reprint requests to: Kenneth E. Dixon, LTC, MC, Department of Preventive Medicine/Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, Maryland 20814.

Copyright:
Copyright © 1983 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1983
Accepted:
30 Sep 1982
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Published Online:
May 1983
Cover The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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Print ISSN:
0002-9637
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