Clinical pharmacology and therapeutic potential of artemisinin and its derivatives in the treatment of malaria

Drugs

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 818-836

  De Vries, Peter J ^a   Dien, Tran K ^a,b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b BACH MAI HOSPITAL   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEETHER; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMISININ; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; ARTESUNATE; DIHYDROARTEMISININ; MEFLOQUINE; QUININE;

ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVULSION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALARIA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RECTAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; REVIEW;

ARTESUNATE; CINCHONA PUBESCENS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0029843392     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003495-199652060-00004     Document Type: Review

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