A randomized, parallel-group study in Mumbai (Bombay), comparing chloroquine with chloroquine plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in the treatment of adults with acute, uncomplicated, Plasmodium falciparum malaria

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 309-312

  Gogtay, N J ^a   Desai, S ^a   Kadam, V S ^a   Kamtekar, K D ^a   Dalvi, S S ^a   Kshirsagar, N A ^a,b  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

^b BYL NAIR CHARITABLE HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR; MEFLOQUINE; QUININE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VOMITING;

CINCHONA PUBESCENS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034085546     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034983.2000.11813544     Document Type: Article

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