Post-marketing surveillance of prophylactic mefloquine (Lariam®) use in pregnancy

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-21

  Vanhauwere, Bart ^a   Maradit, Hilal ^a   Kerr, Lydia ^a  

^a F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEFLOQUINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; TERATOGENESIS;

EID: 0031943736     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1998.58.17     Document Type: Article

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