Spread Of Malaria Parasites Curbed With Combination Of Methylene Blue And New Malaria Drugs
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 10:22
in Health & Medicine
In a study on 160 children with malaria, specialists in tropical medicine have shown that in combination with newer malaria drugs, methylene blue prevents the malaria pathogen in infected persons from being re-ingested by mosquitoes and then transmitted to others and is thus twice as effective as the standard therapy.
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