Predictors of the failure of treatment with chloroquine in children with acute, uncomplicated, Plasmodium falciparum malaria, in an area with high and increasing incidences of chloroquine resistance

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 535-544

  Sowunmi, A ^a,b   Fateye, B A ^a   Adedeji, A A ^a   Fehintola, F A ^a   Gbotosho, G O ^a   Happi, T C ^a   Tambo, E ^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;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; FEVER; GAMETOCYTE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NIGERIA; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; NIGERIA; PARASITEMIA; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 24044544585     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485905X51382     Document Type: Article

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