in a study of intramuscular injection of quinine eight adults with moderately severe falciparum malaria resistant to chloroquine were treated with quinine dihydrochloride , being given a loading dose of 20 mg salt ( 16.7 mg base ) /kg followed by three or four eight hourly maintenance doses of 10 mg salt ( 8.3 mg base ) /kg injected into the anterior thigh .
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falciparum malaria
C0008269
chloroquine