Treatment of multidrug-resistant plasmodium falciparum malaria with 3-day artesunate-mefloquine combination

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 971-977

  Nosten, F ^a,b,c   Luxemburger, C ^a,b,c   Ter Kuile, F O ^a,b,c,d   Woodrow, C ^a,b,c,e   Pa Eh, J ^a,b,c   Chongsuphajaisiddhi, T ^a,b,c   White, N J ^a,b,c  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Amsterdam Medical Centre ^*  (United Kingdom)

^e ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTESUNATE; HALOFANTRINE; MEFLOQUINE; PARACETAMOL; QUININE; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CARDIOTOXICITY; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NAUSEA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; REINFECTION; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CHILD; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEFLOQUINE; MYANMAR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RECURRENCE; SESQUITERPENES; THAILAND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0028106706     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/170.4.971     Document Type: Article

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