Optimal use of antimalarial drugs
3.1 Therapeutic drugs for Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium ovale, Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium kowlesi
Chloroquine phosphate tablets (chloroquine for short) and primaquine phosphate tablets (primaquine for short) are preferred. When the treatment is failing, the oral artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) can be used for second line.
3.2 Therapeutic drugs for falciparum malaria
3.2.1 The artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) include Artesunate-Pyronaridine, dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine , artesunate-amodiaquine, artemisininpiperaquine and so on.(https://www.daowen.com)
3.2.2 Non-artemisinin drugs: naphthoquine phosphate tablets (naphthoquine for short), pyronaridine, quinine and so on.
3.3 Therapeutic drugs for severe malaria
3.3.1 Injection of artemisinin drugs including artesunate and artemether.
3.3.2 Injection of non-artemisinin: pyronaridine phosphate (pyronaridine for short) and quinine dihydrochloride (quinine for short).