The medicine obtained from the bark of cinchona was used for the treatment of malaria, the artificial medicine which replaced this natural product is-

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Chloroquine. Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by a plasmodium parasite.It's typically transmitted through the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito. Infected mosquitoes carry the Plasmodium parasite. Chloroquine is a synthetic form of quinine, a compound found in the bark of cinchona trees native to Peru and used for centuries to treat malaria.

The medicine obtained from the bark of cinchona was used for the treatment of malaria, the artificial medicine which replaced this natural product is-

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