A report on Mefloquine
Medication used to prevent or treat malaria.
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Chloroquine
4 linksMedication primarily used to prevent and treat malaria in areas where malaria remains sensitive to its effects.
Medication primarily used to prevent and treat malaria in areas where malaria remains sensitive to its effects.
In areas where resistance is present, other antimalarials, such as mefloquine or atovaquone, may be used instead.
Antimalarial medication
4 linksAntimalarial medications or simply antimalarials are a type of antiparasitic chemical agent, often naturally derived, that can be used to treat or to prevent malaria, in the latter case, most often aiming at two susceptible target groups, young children and pregnant women.
Antimalarial medications or simply antimalarials are a type of antiparasitic chemical agent, often naturally derived, that can be used to treat or to prevent malaria, in the latter case, most often aiming at two susceptible target groups, young children and pregnant women.
It is especially useful in areas where there is known to be a high level of resistance to chloroquine, mefloquine, and sulfa drug combinations with pyrimethamine.
Malaria
3 linksMosquito-borne infectious disease that affects humans and other animals.
Mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects humans and other animals.
The second medication may be either mefloquine, lumefantrine, or sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine.
Plasmodium vivax
3 linksProtozoal parasite and a human pathogen.
Protozoal parasite and a human pathogen.
Mefloquine is a good alternative and in some countries is more readily available.
WHO Model List of Essential Medicines
1 linksThe WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (aka Essential Medicines List or EML ), published by the World Health Organization (WHO), contains the medications considered to be most effective and safe to meet the most important needs in a health system.
The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (aka Essential Medicines List or EML ), published by the World Health Organization (WHO), contains the medications considered to be most effective and safe to meet the most important needs in a health system.
Artesunate/mefloquine (artesunate + mefloquine)
Halofantrine
1 linksDrug used to treat malaria.
Drug used to treat malaria.
The drug should therefore not be given to patients with cardiac conduction defects and should not be combined with mefloquine.
Roche
0 linksSwiss multinational healthcare company that operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics.
Swiss multinational healthcare company that operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics.
Lariam (mefloquine), for malaria (both prevention and treatment).
Boxed warning
0 linksType of warning that appears on the package insert for certain prescription drugs, so called because
Type of warning that appears on the package insert for certain prescription drugs, so called because
In July 2013, the FDA issued a boxed warning for the antimalarial drug mefloquine, noting the drug's adverse neuropsychiatric side effects, and emphasizing neurological effects from the drug could "occur at any time during drug use, and can last for months to years after the drug is stopped or can be permanent".
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
0 linksRare and often fatal viral disease characterized by progressive damage (-pathy) or inflammation of the white matter (leuko-) of the brain (-encephalo-) at multiple locations (multifocal).
Rare and often fatal viral disease characterized by progressive damage (-pathy) or inflammation of the white matter (leuko-) of the brain (-encephalo-) at multiple locations (multifocal).
In June 2010, the first case report appeared of a PML patient being successfully treated with the antimalarial drug mefloquine with activity against the JC virus.