The World Health Organization's ATC classification organizes medical drugs based on therapeutic properties, chemical composition, and anatomy. It helps make essential medicines readily available globally and is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry.
| Level | Code | Title | |
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P | Antiparasitic products, insecticides and repellents | |
2
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P01 | Antiprotozoals | |
3
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P01B | Antimalarials | |
4
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P01BC | Methanolquinolines |
| Code | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| P01BC01 | Quinine | |
| P01BC02 | Mefloquine |
| Active Ingredient |
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Mefloquine acts on and destroys the asexual intraerythocytic forms of the human malaria parasites: Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax. P. malariae and P. ovale. It is effective in the treatment and prophylaxis of malaria. |
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Quinine is a cinchona alkaloid and a 4-methanolquinoline antimalarial agent which is a rapidly acting blood schizontocide with activity against Plasmodium falciparum, P vivax, P ovale and P malariae. It is active against the gametocytes of P malariae and P vivax, but not against mature gametocytes of P falciparum. |
| Document | Type | Information Source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| LARIAM Tablets | MPI, EU: SmPC | Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (GB) |