KROK 1 2016 – Question 136 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology
UN volunteers have arrived in Nigeria to assist the locals in aftermath of earthquakes. What drug should they prescribe for individual chemoprophylaxis of malaria?
- A. Pyrimethamine (Chloridinum)
- B. Chingamin
- C. Interferon (Laferon)
- D. Primaquine
- E. Pyrantel
Hint
Think about what a prophylactic antimalarial taken by a traveller in an endemic area has to do against Plasmodium in the blood.
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