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Malaria at Johannesburg Hospital. A retrospective study
K T Jairam1, F S Monteagudo, S L Moch
1Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Abstract:
A total of 43 patients diagnosed as having malaria were admitted to Johannesburg Hospital during 1988; 40 (94%) were infected with Plasmodium falciparum. Only 26 patients (60%) were recorded as having used prophylaxis of any kind; chloroquine alone and in combination was used as prophylaxis by 17. Patients were treated with quinine (alone or in combination) in 67% of cases. In 42% of patients chloroquine-resistant malaria was considered a possibility.