RECENT ADVANCE OF SUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT AGAINST FALCIPURUM MALARIA IN JAPAN

Abstract

The treatment of malaria is chemotherapy that acts specific for the stage of parasite and results in improvement of symptoms with suppression of fever. The treatment of falcipalum malaria has been changing by appearance of drug-resistant strains of this parasite and supply of orphan drugs from the study group supported by Japanese Ministry of Public Health and Welfare. Although many kinds of antimalarial drug has been developed for the treatment of drugresistant falciparum malaria, only two drugs obtained ap-