In Vivo Sensitivity of Plasmodium Falciparum to Chloroquine; Amodiaquine and Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in Western Uganda

ABSTRACT

In an in vivo study of antimalarial sensitivity in kabarole district; Western Uganda; 82of asymptomatic malarial infections and 86of symptomatic infections were chloroquine sensitive. Of persons with symptomatic malaria; 88were sensitive to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (Fansidar). Amodiaquine cleared parasites in all persons in whom it was used. Over the course of the past five years; there appears to be no substantial increase in the extent of chloroquine resistance in Western Uganda. Source Trop.Geogr.Med. 1994; 46(6)364-5