BIO220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Avian Malaria, Drug Resistance, Antimicrobial Resistance
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Fever, chills, anemia (loss of red blood cells) Kill the parasite within us drug treatments. Decrease contact between humans and vector bed nets. First drug used to treat malaria is chloroquine 1930s. Resistance then was detected in this drug use, the drug was not immediately abandoned, when resistance is too wide spread, it stop becoming effective. Many drugs in the past decades were used to treat malaria, but all of those drugs had shown drug resistance. What we use now is artemisinin it is showing resistance in cambodia. When mosquitoes lay their eggs on the water remove areas where mosquitoes can lay their eggs: eradicate mosquitoes ii adult stage. Rapid killing with insecticide spray, and bed nets. Treatment with an organophosphate insecticide in 1968. Not a major vector to humans, but it is to birds. Treatment ended in 1990 because by 1978 resistance allele was common near the sea.
