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Antimalarial Drugs During pPregnancy

August 6, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION What is the safest antimalarial drug to be used by a pregnant woman in her second trimester? ANSWER With regards to treating malaria, intravenous artesunate (or quinine, if artesunate is not available) should be used for the treatment of severe/complicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Signs of severe and/or complicated malaria include impaired consciousness, organ failure, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: anti-malarial treatment, Artesunate, Chemoprophylaxis, Chloroquine, clindamycin, complicated malaria, drug resistance, IV, malaria in pregnancy, Mefloquine, Plasmodium Falciparum, Plasmodium Knowlesi, Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium Ovale, Plasmodium Vivax, primagravidae, Quinine, severe malaria

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