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antimalarial
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antimalarial /an·ti·ma·lar·i·al/ (-mah-lar´e-al) therapeutically effective against malaria, or an agent with this quality.
an·ti·ma·lar·i·al (nt-m-lâr-l, nt-)
adj.
Preventing or relieving the symptoms of malaria.
antimalarial
[-məler′ē·əl]
1 pertaining to a substance that destroys or suppresses the development of malaria plasmodia or to a procedure that exterminates the mosquito vectors of the disease, such as spraying insecticides or draining swamps.
2 an antimalarial drug. Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine sulfate are effective against Plasmodium vivax, P. malariae, and certain strains of P. falciparum. Patients with drug-resistant P. falciparum are often treated with a combination of quinine, pyrimethamine, and sulfadoxine.
antimalarial [an″te-, an″ti-mah-lar´e-al]
therapeutically effective against malaria.
antimalarial agent.
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