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Challenges in Treating Malaria with Chloroquine

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Challenges in Treating Malaria with Chloroquine

Question

Explain why it is becoming more difficult to treat malaria using chloroquine?

Answer

Some malaria plasmodium developed resistance to chloroquine drug through mutation, those resistant individuals transmit the characteristic to their offspring through reproduction thus establishing a new population of resistant forms.