African Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 2 (8), pp. 244-245, August 2003

ISSN 1684-5315  © 2003 Academic Journals  

Short Communication

Chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum in Sokoto, North Western Nigeria

K. Abdullahi¹, S. Muhammad^1*, S. B. Manga¹   and I. M. Tunau²

^1. Department of Biological Sciences

Usmanu Danfodiyo University, P.M.B. 2346, Sokoto-Nigeria.

^2. Sokoto Specialist Hospital, Sokoto-Nigeria

*Corresponding author; E-mail: sanusi1966@yahoo.com

Accepted 2 July 2003

Three patients, 30, 2 and one and a half years, were diagnosed as having falciparum malaria and were placed on chloroquine therapy which failed. They were then placed on quinine therapy that then cleared the parasitaemia. This case report seeks to draw the attention of the presence of possible chloroquine-resistant falciparum malaria in Sokoto, North Western Nigeria.

Key words: Chloroquine-resistant malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, haemoglobin level, packed cell volume.