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[Acute paranoid hallucinatory psychosis following mefloquine prophylaxis (Lariam)]
E Krüger1, M Grube, P Hartwich
1Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie der Städtischen Kliniken, Frankfurt a.M.
Psychiatrische Praxis
|October 27, 1999
Abstract:
Mefloquine is a drug of choice for malaria prophylaxis in Africa because of the spread of chloroquine resistant plasmodium falciparum. On the other hand there are some reports about severe neuropsychiatric side effects associated with the intake of mefloquine medication. In our paper we present a case-report of a patient suffering for the first time from an acute paranoid psychosis induced by mefloquine prophylaxis.