Efficacy of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and mefloquine for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the Amazon basin of Peru

Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. 2004 May-Jun;37(3):279-81. doi: 10.1590/s0037-86822004000300015.

Abstract

In vivo antimalarial drug efficacy studies of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria at an isolated site in the Amazon basin of Peru bordering Brazil and Colombia showed >50% RII/RIII resistance to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine but no evidence of resistance to mefloquine.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Animals
  • Antimalarials / administration & dosage
  • Antimalarials / therapeutic use*
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Drug Combinations
  • Drug Resistance
  • Drug Therapy, Combination
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Malaria, Falciparum / drug therapy*
  • Male
  • Mefloquine / administration & dosage
  • Mefloquine / therapeutic use*
  • Middle Aged
  • Peru
  • Plasmodium falciparum / drug effects*
  • Pyrimethamine / administration & dosage
  • Pyrimethamine / therapeutic use*
  • Sulfadoxine / administration & dosage
  • Sulfadoxine / therapeutic use*
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Antimalarials
  • Drug Combinations
  • fanasil, pyrimethamine drug combination
  • Sulfadoxine
  • Mefloquine
  • Pyrimethamine