Increasing Malaria Parasite Clearance Time after Chloroquine Therapy, South Korea, 2000-2016

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 26; no. 8; pp. 1852 - 1855
• Main Authors: Park, Seong Yeon, Park, Yoon Soo, Park, Yoonseon, Kwak, Yee Gyung, Song, Je Eun, Lee, Kkot Sil, Cho, Shin-Hyeong, Lee, Sang-Eun, Shin, Hyun-Il, Yeom, Joon-Sup
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.08.2020; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Chloroquine; Disease control; Dispatch; Drug dosages; Drug resistance; Fever; fever clearance time; hydroxychloroquine; Increasing Malaria Parasite Clearance Time after Chloroquine Therapy, South Korea, 2000–2016; Malaria; Military personnel; parasite clearance time; Parasites; Patients; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium vivax; Primaquine; Soldiers; Systematic review; Trends; South Korea; retrospective studies; Plasmodium vivax; South Korea; parasite clearance time; primaquine; hydroxychloroquine; Chloroquine; parasites; fever clearance time; malaria

We reviewed the clinical efficacy of chloroquine for Plasmodium vivax malaria, the changing trend of parasite clearance time, and fever clearance time during 2000-2016 in South Korea. Median parasite clearance time and fever clearance time increased significantly over the study period. Chloroquine w...