“…Malaria, one of the most important diseases affecting the population over wide areas of the world (Wyler, 1982), is estimated to be responsible for the deaths of one million infants and young children each year in Africa alone (WHO, 1985). The eradication of the disease has been hampered by the emergence and spread of multidrugresistant malarial parasites, especially Plasmodium falciparum strains resistant to many antimalarial drugs (WHO, 1985;Peters, 1984).…”