Pharmacologic Substance
antimalarial
Subclass of:
Antiprotozoal Agents
Definitions related to antimalarials:
  • Agents used in the treatment of malaria. They are usually classified on the basis of their action against plasmodia at different stages in their life cycle in the human. (From AMA, Drug Evaluations Annual, 1992, p1585)
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • (antimalarial agent) Agent used in the treatment or prevention of malaria.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (antimalarial agent) Agents used to treat malaria, and are usually classified based on action against plasmodia at different stages in their life cycle in the human.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (anti-malarial agent) A pharmaceutical agent that cures or prevents malaria. Certain anti-malarials, specifically chloroquine derivatives, have been used in the treatment of autoimmune disease.
    NICHD Pediatric Terminology
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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