Prakaykaew Charunwatthana – ราชบัณฑิตยสภา https://royalsociety.go.th Royal Society of Thailand Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:14:43 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://royalsociety.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/cropped-logo-rst-1-Grayscale-150x150.jpg Prakaykaew Charunwatthana – ราชบัณฑิตยสภา https://royalsociety.go.th 32 32 Combination Anti-malarial Therapy and WHO Recommendations https://royalsociety.go.th/combination-anti-malarial-therapy-and-who-recommendations/ Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:00:08 +0000 https://royalsociety.go.th/?p=1476 Prakaykaew Charunwatthana2,
and Sasithon Pukrittayakamee1,2
1 Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute, Academy of Science
2 Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine,
Mahidol University, Thailand

Abstract

Malaria infection is a major global health problem causing at least 1 million deaths per year. P. falciparm parasite in many areas has developed resistance to antimalarial monotherapy. The use of antimalarial combinations will delay the onset and slow the rate of spread of resistance. WHO recommends that all countries experiencing resistance to conventional monotherapies, such as chloroquine, quinine, amodiaquine or sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine, should use combination therapies, preferably those containing artemisinin derivatives or artemisinin-based combination therapies. Other alternative combination therapies are artesunate plus tetracycline or doxycycline or clindamycin and quinine plus tetracycline or doxycycline or clindamycin.

Key words: Malaria, Combination therapy

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