antimalarial drug

1. A medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria (synset 102724873)
   is a type of: antiprotozoal, antiprotozoal drug - a medicinal drug used to fight diseases (like malaria) that are caused by protozoa
   subtypes:

   • chloroquine - an antimalarial drug used to treat malaria and amebic dysentery and systemic lupus erythematosus
   • larium, mefloquine, mefloquine hydrochloride, mephaquine - an antimalarial drug (trade name Larium and Mephaquine) that is effective in cases that do not respond to chloroquine; said to produce harmful neuropsychiatric effects on some people
   • primaquine - synthetic antimalarial drug
   • atabrine, mepacrine, quinacrine, quinacrine hydrochloride - a drug (trade name Atabrine) used to treat certain worm infestations and once used to treat malaria
   • quinine - a bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark; used in malaria therapy
   same as: antimalarial

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