Toxoplasmosis, an infection caused by a parasite, is the leading cause of foodborne deaths in the U.S., and if contracted by a pregnant woman, can be transmitted to the fetus. The only commercially av ...
The drugs administered to 17 patients included chloroquine, novalgin, paraldehyde, procaine penicillin, and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine. However, the most neurotoxic agents tested in a previous ...
Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), a combination of two drugs, replaced CQ. However, resistance to SP evolved rapidly and now occurs at high frequency in major malarious regions (Laxminarayan 2004).