Plasmodium falciparum gametocytaemia in Nigerian children: Peripheral immature gametocytaemia as an indicator of a poor response to chloroquine treatment, and its relationship to molecular determinants of chloroquine resistance

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 453-468

  Sowunmi, A ^a,b   Fateye, B A ^a   Happi, T C ^a   Gbotosho, G O ^a   Oduola, A M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER; CHLOROQUINE; MEFLOQUINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; GAMETOCYTE; GENE MUTATION; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NIGERIA; PARASITEMIA; PERIPHERAL IMMATURE GAMETOCYTEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SPLENOMEGALY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NIGERIA; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0042848852     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000349803235002443     Document Type: Article

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