Artesunate Is Better For Malaria Than Quinine
...he latest edition of The Lancet had found the drug artesunate more effective in treating adults with malaria tha...lity from severe malaria remains high. Intravenous artesunate is more rapidly acting, in terms of parasite clearance, is safer, and is simpler to administer than ...New Strategies For Effective Treatment Of Malaria
...ple in Asia, with the most deadly form of malaria, artesunate increased the chance of survival by a third. The researchers feel that novel approaches is required for treatment of malaria, by using combinations of anti-malarial drugs, the same approach which is used in the treatment of AIDS and TB is required f......mong patients taking a combination of Fansidar and artesunate (artemisinin). But the new drug combination Fansidar-artesunate was more than twice as effective in clearing malarial parasites from the blood at a particularly stage of parasite development than the older drug combination. This step is important ...... This treatment called as ASAQ is a combination of artesunate and amodiaquine. The earlier treatment for malar...n the malarial parasite developing a resistance to artesunate which is the main component in the malarial therapy. But with ASAQ, the therapy is a combination o...