One hundred and ten consecutive patients with falciparum malaria were treated with Fansidar and primaquine. Of the 61 patients who were followed up at one week, 4 (6.5%) failed to clear their parasitemia (1 R III and 3 R Il treatment failures). Of the subsequent 40 patients who were seen again at one month, another 3 (7.5%) had recrudesced (R 1 treatment failure). A total of 7 patients thus exp...

Fansidar is a fixed combination of two antimalarial agents a diaminopyrimidine (Pyrimethamine) and a sulphonamide (Sulphadoxine) in the ratio 1:20- that have been used extensively worldwide for the treatment of Chloroquine resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria, toxoplasmosis and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. This study examined the eff...

The prevalence of clinically observed oral lichenoid reaction in 186 Malay army personnel using Fansidar for 9 weeks was found to be 4.8%. The prevalence was found to be 0.5% in 186 army personnel who had stopped using Fansidar for 2 months and 0% in 143 army personnel (control group) who had not used Fansidar for at least 4 months. The lesion showed a higher prevalence for the gingiva. There w...

A randomized double-blind study was performed to compare the side effects of long-term chemoprophylaxis of malaria with Fansidar (1 tablet a week) with those of a 300-mg weekly chloroquine regimen. This study was designed as a field trial with Austrian industrial workers in Nigeria and included 173 volunteers, 86 taking Fansidar and 87 taking chloroquine for 6 to 22 months. Only a few complaint...

The disposition of sulfadoxine was studied in the presence of pyrimethamine in 18 healthy Thai subjects who had been suffering from falciparum malaria in the 6 months prior to the study, and in 12 Thai patients with acute malaria. The volunteers were administered an oral dose of 500 mg sulfadoxine + 25 mg pyrimethamine (1 Fansidar tablet). They were classified retrospectively as responders (Gro...

Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS) is a rare childhood disorder characterized by chronic non-malignant lymphoproliferation and autoimmunity. Patients with ALPS frequently exhibit episodic and intermittent, severe autoimmune- induced hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia or combined cytopenias. The co-occurrence of immune-mediated cytopenias, autoimmune thrombocytopenia and autoimmune h...

Study on the effects of some antimalaria drugs; coartem, fansidar and lonart on gastric acid secretion was carried out for 14 days on thirty albino male and female mice infected with Plasmodium berghei berghei malaria parasite. The results showed that coartem at a dosage of 33.6mg/kg decreased red blood cells count as compared with control P<0.05, same with chloroquine at a dosage of 14.3mg/kg....