Profile and evolution of the chemosusceptibility of falciparum malaria imported into France in 2000

Euro Surveill. 2002 Jul;7(7):113-8. doi: 10.2807/esm.07.07.00355-en.

Abstract

In 2000, the chemosusceptibility of imported malaria was stable in France. All countries of infection considered, the bi-resistance to chloroquine and cycloguanil has not changed from 1996 to 2000. The monotherapy using quinine or mefloquine remains the first-line treatment to falciparum malaria. Resistance to these two antimalarials is rare in Africa and has not evolved over the past 15 years.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Animals
  • Antimalarials / therapeutic use*
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Chloroquine / therapeutic use
  • Drug Resistance
  • Female
  • France / epidemiology
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Malaria, Falciparum / drug therapy*
  • Malaria, Falciparum / epidemiology*
  • Malaria, Falciparum / prevention & control
  • Male
  • Mefloquine / therapeutic use
  • Middle Aged
  • Plasmodium falciparum / drug effects*
  • Proguanil
  • Quinine / therapeutic use
  • Triazines / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Antimalarials
  • Triazines
  • cycloguanil
  • Chloroquine
  • Quinine
  • Proguanil
  • Mefloquine