The forgotten malaria drug chloroquine may yet prove effective against the disease provided it is administered in a different way.
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This new research indicated that the protein responsible for the parasite's resistance can be bypassed, thus making the drug effective once again. "We studied diverse versions of this protein and in all cases found that it is limited in its capacity to remove the drug from the parasite," said malaria researcher Dr Rowena Martin, from the ANU Research School of Biology. "This means malaria could once again be treated with chloroquine if it is administered twice-daily, rather than just once a day."
The study is published in the journal PNAS.
Source-Medindia