Neurotoxicity due to antimalarial therapy associated with misdiagnosis of malaria [9]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1710-1711

  Franco Paredes, Carlos ^a,b   Dismukes, Roberta ^a   Nicolls, Deborah ^a   Kozarsky, Phyllis E ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER; ARTESUNATE; CHLOROQUINE; DOXYCYCLINE;

ANAMNESIS; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONCENTRATION LOSS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE CONTROL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALARIA; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREMOR;

ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; ANXIETY; ARTEMISININS; ATAXIA; CHLOROQUINE; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; SESQUITERPENES; TREMOR;

EID: 19344362584     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/430180     Document Type: Letter

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