Asymptomatic, recrudescent, chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum infections in Nigerian children: Clinical and parasitological characteristics and implications for the transmission of drug-resistant parasites

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 469-479

  Sowunmi, A ^a,b   Fateye, B A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GAMETOCYTE; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; MALARIA; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RECRUDESCENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEFLOQUINE; NIGERIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; PYRIMETHAMINE; RECURRENCE; STATISTICS; SULFADOXINE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0043261496     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000349803235002452     Document Type: Article

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