Chemotherapy of malaria and resistance to antimalarial drugs in Guayana area, Venezuela

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 120-124

  Caraballo, Alejandro ^a   Rodriguez Acosta, Alexis ^b  

^a Inst de Salud Pub Malariologia   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SCHIZONT; VENEZUELA;

EID: 0032766101     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1999.61.120     Document Type: Article

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