Medicines for the prevention of malaria while traveling - Chloroquine

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• Corporate Authors:
  Center for Global Health (U.S.). Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria.
• Description:
  Chloroquine (also known as chloroquine phosphate) is an antimalarial medicine. It is available in the United States by prescription only. It is sold under the brand name Aralen, and it is also sold as a generic medicine. It is available in tablets of two sizes: 150mg base (250mg salt) and 300mg base (500mg salt).
  
  You should know that the 150mg base tablet is the same as the 250mg salt tablet and the 300mg base tablet is the same as the 500mg salt tablet. It is just two different ways of describing the same thing.
  
  Chloroquine can be prescribed for either prevention or treatment of malaria. This fact sheet provides information about its use for the prevention of malaria infection associated with travel.
  
  CS237187-A
  
  
• Subjects:
  Antimalarials Chloroquine Malaria/prevention & Control Travel
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  2 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a5d7e80526e531ffe60d6289fb97b82ef6601bf914ca118c126e1ae48fe5acf2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/27954/cdc_27954_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 582.52 KB ]