Artemisinin: Current status

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 88, Issue , 1994, Pages 3-4

  White, Nicholas J ^a,b,c  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b CHO QUAN HOSPITAL   (Viet Nam)

^c JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMISININ; ARTESUNATE;

CHINESE MEDICINE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEUROTOXICITY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PLANT; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

ANTIMALARIALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HUMAN; MALARIA; SESQUITERPENES;

EID: 0028305816     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0035-9203(94)90459-6     Document Type: Article

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