Failure of chloroquine treatment for malaria in the highlands of Ethiopia

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 556-557

  Tulu, Assefa Nega ^a,b   Webber, Roger H ^b   Schellenberg, Joanna Armstrong ^b   Bradley, David J ^b  

^a FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Ethiopia)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chloroquine; Drug resistance; Ethiopia; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium vivax; Sulfadoxine pyrimethamine

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT FAILURE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 0029909910     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(96)90322-3     Document Type: Article

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