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1
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What are the three stages in treatment of malaria?

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  • prophylaxis
  • treatment of acute attack
  • radical cure
2
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How do the quinoline derivatives work?

A

Accumulates in parasite’s food vacuoles, disrupts heme polymerization, causes oxidative damage to membranes and digestive proteases

3
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What allows the quinoline derivatives to stay in the food vacuole?

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Gradient of decreasing pH (quinolines are basic drugs)

4
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What is the mechanism of chloroquine resistance?

A

Point mutations enable PfCRT to expel chloroquine through an energy-dependent efflux mechanism

5
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What is amantidine used for and how does it work?

A

Positive charge prevents chloroquine efflux from a chloroquine resistant parasite.

6
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What is primaquine used for and how does it work?

A

Treatment of relapses of malaria and a radical cure

  • works by forming quinoline-quinone intermediates that oxidize schizont membranes
7
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How do pyrimethamine and chloroguanide work?

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Inhibit dihydrofolate reductase, used as combination with atovaquone to treat malaria

8
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How does atovaquone work?

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Depolarizes parasitic mitochondria and inhibits their electron transport. Used in combination with chloroguanide for prophylaxis and treatment of malaria

9
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How does artesunate work?

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specific inhibitor of SERCA in P. falciparum

10
Q

One of your patients is taking primaquine for malaria and quickly becomes anemic. What underlying condition do you suspect they have?

A

G6PD deficiency

11
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What antimalarials are used in chloroquine-resistant regions?

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mefloquine, doxycycline, atovaquone/proguanil

12
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A patient presents with severe malaria. What are your treatment options?

A
  • IV quinidine + tetracycline + doxycyclin or clindamycin
  • IV artesunate followed by atovaquone/proguanil, doxycyclin, or mefloquine
  • exchange blood transfusion (parasite density > 10%, altered mental status, pulmonary edema, or renal complications)
13
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What is the main treatment of uncomplicated malarial infection of chloroquine sensitive strains of P. falciparum, P. malariae, or P. knowlesi?

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Chloroquine

14
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What is the main treatment of uncomplicated malarial infection of chloroquine sensitive strains of P. vivax or P. ovale?

A

Chloroquine + primaquine

15
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What is the main treatment of uncomplicated malarial infection of chloroquine resistant strains of P. falciparum?

A

Atovaquone/proguanil

16
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What is the main treatment of uncomplicated malarial infection of chloroquine resistant strains of P. vivax?

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Quinine + either doxycyclin or tetracycline + primaquine

17
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What is unique and awesome about primaquine?

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Only drug that inhibits exoerythrocytic schyzogeny

18
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Your patient started anti-malarial treatment a few days ago and keeps calling you because he CANNOT stop itching, and his eyes feel a little funny. Which antimalarial drug is he taking?

A

Chloroquine

19
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You patient started anti-malarial treatment a few days ago and is complaining because he is feeling light headed and his wife keeps asking why he looks so yellow. What antimalarial drug is he taking?

A

Quinine