Questions for the Questions for the

audience audience

Dept of Pharmacology, PIMS

1. Which drug is obtained from

this plant?

Artemisinins

Answer

a. Halofantrine

b. Artemether

c. Atovaquone

d. Primaquine

2. Which of the following antimalarial

drug is known to prolong QT interval?

a. Halofantrine

Answer

a. Chloroquine

b. Mefloquine

c. Doxycycline

d. Proguanil

3. For a person visiting an area with

multidrug resistant malaria which of the

following drugs is preferred for malaria

prophylaxis

c. Doxycycline

Answer

4. Blackwater fever is a fatal complication

seen with

a. Mefloquine

b. Quinine

c. Chloroquine

d. Primaquine

b. Quinine

Answer

5. Drug used to eradicate hypnozoites

in liver

a. Artemisinin

b. Proguanil

c. Primaquine

d. Atovaquone

c. Primaquine

Answer

6.Plasmodial resistance to chloroquine is due to

a. Change in the structure of receptor

b. reduced drug accumulation within food

vacuole

c. Induction of metabolizing enzymes

d. Increase in DNA repair mechanisms

b. reduced drug accumulation within food

vacuole of the parasite

Answer

7. Drug recommended for oral treatment of uncomplicated malaria by chloroquine resistant P. falciparum is

a. Atovaquone

b. Quinine

c. Proguanil

d. Iodoquinol

b. Quinine

Answer