Successful co-artemether (artemether-lumefantrine) clearance of falciparum malaria in a patient with severe cholera in Mozambique

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 177-179

  Toovey, S ^a,b   Jamieson, A ^a,b   Nettleton, G ^a  

^a SAA Netcare Travel Clinics   (South Africa)

^b Amer Soc Trop Med Hyg C   (United States)

Author keywords

Artemether; Cholera; Co artemether; Falciparum malaria

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ELECTROLYTE; INFUSION FLUID; SCOPOLAMINE;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; CHOLERA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG CHOICE; ELECTROLYTE INTAKE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORY TEST; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOZAMBIQUE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHYDRATION;

EID: 15944427820     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2003.09.002     Document Type: Article

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