Treatment of rodent malaria with levamisole

Levamisole, an immuno-modulator drug was tried in the treatment of Plasmodium berghei berghei in albino mice. Treated animals showed a delay in the appearance of parasites. Parasitaemia was not as fulminating as in the control untreated group. While infection in the control mice was lethal to all, yet there was a number of survivals, though few, in the treated group. The drug can be used as an adjuvant and not a substitute to the classical anti-plasmoidal chemo-therapeutics