Chemotherapy targets the parasites.
The majority of these drugs are blood schizonticidal agents that are effective against the erythrocytic stage of the plasmodia life cycle. Few drugs like primaquine affect the gametocytes. Table of the summary of clinically used anti-malarial drugs. All plasmodial infection Chloroquine Chloroquine or proguanil Infection with Chloroquine-resistant P.falciparum. The female Anopheles mosquito is the vector responsible for transmitting the parasite.