The effect of four different therapies on the relapse rate of vivax malaria.

Although there are relatively few drugs which have been used extensively as effective antimalarial agents, there has been little agreement concerning which dosage or combination of drugs gives the best clinical effect. The literature has been full of conflict about the relatively simple matter of how best to terminate a clinical attack of malaria. It has been still more confused over the problem of how to cure a malarial infection, in the sense of preventing infection, in the sense of preventing the relapses, which are otherwise so likely to occur.