treatment of plasmodium falciparum malaria with mefloquine alone or in combination with i.v. quinine at the department of communicable and tropical diseases, rigshospitalet, copenhagen 1982-1988. | at the department of communicable and tropical diseases, rigshospitalet, denmark, mefloquine has been used since 1982 for the treatment of patients with suspected or verified chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistant p. falciparum malaria. eighty-one patients treated with mefloquine are reviewed. forty patients had complicated malaria; 18 were initially treated with iv quinine. mefloquine dose for adults was 1,500 mg in one dose or divided in two with six hourly intervals. mild gastroi ... | 1990 | 2073860 |