Resistance of Plasmodium falciparum malaria to amodiaquine, chloroquine and quinine in the Madang Province of Papua New Guinea, 1990-1993

Papua and New Guinea Medical Journal

Volumn , Issue 1, 1996, Pages 16-22

  Al Yaman, Fadwa ^a,c   Genton, Blaise ^a   Mokela, David ^b   Narara, Arthur ^a   Raiko, Andrew ^a   Alpers, Michael P ^a  

^a PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^b Madang General Hospital   (Papua New Guinea)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG; QUININE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILD SURVIVAL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASES; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INFANT; JUVENILE; LENGTH OF LIFE; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALARIA--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; MALE; MELANESIA; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESEARCH REPORT; SURVIVORSHIP; TREATMENT; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AGE FACTORS; ANTIBIOTICS; CHILD; CHILD SURVIVAL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; DRUGS; IN VITRO; LENGTH OF LIFE; MALARIA--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; MELANESIA; MORTALITY; OCEANIA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARASITIC DISEASES; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; SURVIVORSHIP; TREATMENT; YOUTH;

ACUTE DISEASE; AMODIAQUINE; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; QUININE; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0030089018     PISSN: 00311480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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