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n. - An antimalarial drug used to treat malaria and amebic dysentery and systemic lupus erythematosus.

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  • To begin with, the fitness ratio of CQR malaria in the absence of chloroquine is .76 or .85.
  • But Coartem is far more expensive than the most commonly used drug, chloroquine, which is becoming less resistant to the malaria parasite.
  • And chloroquine is not the only case.
  • Proguanil is used with chloroquine for prevention.
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