| high prevalence of chloroquine resistant plasmodium falciparum infection in rajasthan epidemic. | plasmodium falciparum is the main killer among all human malaria parasites. in 1994, there was a falciparum malaria epidemic in rajasthan, india, with many deaths. we have investigated active falciparum malaria cases from this epidemic and found that most of the parasite isolates (95%) were resistant to chloroquine. nevertheless, all the tested isolates from the epidemic, were sensitive to mefloquine and quinine and ninety percent were also susceptible to sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine. most individu ... | 1996 | 9025981 |