Use of antimalarial drugs in chemoprophylaxis and treatment of patients in non endemic countries
Keywords:
Antimalarial drugs, drug interactions, adverse effectsAbstract
Malaria is the most important parasitic disease of man. About
40% of world population lives in high-risk malaria endemic areas.
Nowadays In Europe malaria have small expression, with a low
number of clinical cases in migrant population of endemic areas
and in travelers to high-risk malaria endemic areas.
This article is a bibliographic review about drug interactions of
the antimalarial agents used in prophylaxis or treatment.
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