A middle aged Asian presents with episodes of fever with rigors and chills for last 1year. Blood film: ring form of plasmodium with schuffners dots in RBCs. What is the drug to eradicate this infection?
belongs to book: 1700 MCQ REVISED VERSION TOPIC WISE|DR. KHALID SAIFULLAH|4th EDITION| Chapter number:8| Question number:37
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The key is B. Mefloquine which is a wrong key! None of the given options are correct!! [Shuffners
dot indicate either vivax or ovale infection and the hepatic cycle only can be eradicated by primaquine].
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