Malaria terms starting with C

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1. Carbamate A chemical product used as an insecticide.
2. Cerebral malaria A severemalaria syndrome in which infected red blood cells obstruct blood circulation in the small blood vessels in the brain and/or release cytokines…
3. Chemoprophylaxis The use of antimalarial drugs to prevent malaria disease.
4. Chloroquine A drug used against malaria for both prevention and treatment. A very safe and inexpensive drug, its value has been compromised by the emergence of…
5. Cinchonism Side effects from quinine or quinidine. Includes tinnitus, headache, nausea, diarrhea, altered auditory acuity, and blurred vision.
6. Clindamycin An antibiotic that can be used for the treatment of malaria in combination with a second drug, usually quinine or quinidine.
7. Clinical cure Elimination of malaria symptoms, sometimes without eliminating all parasites. See "radical cure" and "suppressive cure/treatment."
8. Coma (KOH-muh) A condition in which a patient is in a state of deep sleep and cannot be awakened.
9. Congenital malaria Malaria in a newborn or infant, transmitted from the mother.
10. Cryptic malaria A case of malaria where epidemiologic investigations fail to identify an apparent mode of acquisition (this term applies mainly to cases found in…