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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
OPEN COMPARISON OF INTRAMUSCULAR CHLOROQUINE AND QUININE IN CHILDREN WITH SEVERE CHLOROQUINE-SENSITIVE FALCIPARUM MALARIA
The Lancet, Volume 334, No. 8675, Year 1989
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An open paired randomised comparison of intramuscular chloroquine (3·5 mg base/kg every 6 h) and intramuscular quinine (20 mg salt/kg followed by 10 mg/kg every 12 h) was carried out in 50 Gambian children with severe falciparum malaria. 8 children died, 6 from the quinine-treated and 2 from the chloroquine-treated group. Chloroquine reduced parasitaemia significantly more rapidly than did quinine, but other measures of the therapeutic response were similar in the two groups. Quinine injections were painful. These findings do not support the proposition that quinine is intrinsically superior to chloroquine in the treatment of severe drug-sensitive falciparum malaria. © 1989.
Authors & Co-Authors
White, Nicholas J.
Thailand, Bangkok
Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Bangkok
United Kingdom, Oxford
Nuffield Department of Medicine
Waller, Deborah J.
United Kingdom, Oxford
Nuffield Department of Medicine
Kwiatkowski, Dominic P.
Gambia, Banjul
Medical Research Council Laboratories Gambia
Krishna, Prof Sanjeev
United Kingdom, Oxford
Nuffield Department of Medicine
Craddock, Charles F.
United Kingdom, London
Imperial College Faculty of Medicine
Brewster, David R.
Gambia, Banjul
Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital Gambia
Statistics
Citations: 52
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/S0140-6736(89)91918-1
ISSN:
01406736
Research Areas
Infectious Diseases
Maternal And Child Health