IN-VIVO SENSITIVITY OF PLASMODIUM-FALCIPARUM TO CHLOROQUINE, AMODIAQUINE AND SULFADOXINE-PYRIMETHAMINE IN WESTERN UGANDA

Authors
KAMUGISHA J KIPP W BURNHAM G
Citation
J. Kamugisha et al., IN-VIVO SENSITIVITY OF PLASMODIUM-FALCIPARUM TO CHLOROQUINE, AMODIAQUINE AND SULFADOXINE-PYRIMETHAMINE IN WESTERN UGANDA, Tropical and geographical medicine, 46(6), 1994, pp. 364-365
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Tropical Medicine","Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
Journal title
Tropical and geographical medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
00413232
Volume
46
Issue
6
Year of publication
1994
Pages
364 - 365
Database
ISI
SICI code
0041-3232(1994)46:6<364:ISOPTC>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
In an in vivo study of antimalarial sensitivity in Kabarole District, Western Uganda, 82% of asymptomatic malarial infections and 86% of sym ptomatic infections were chloroquine sensitive. Of persons with sympto matic malaria, 88% were sensitive to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (Fansid ar(R)). Amodiaquine cleared parasites in all persons in whom it was us ed. Over the course of the past five years, there appears to be no sub stantial increase in the extent of chloroquine resistance in Western U ganda.