Dramatically decreased therapeutic efficacy of chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, but not mefloquine, in southern Benin

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 886-894

  Aubouy, Agnès ^a,e   Fievet, Nadine ^a   Bertin, Gwladys ^b   Sagbo, Jean C ^a   Kossou, Hortense ^c   Kinde Gazard, Dorothée ^d   Kiniffo, Richard ^c   Massougbodji, Achille ^d   Deloron, Philippe ^b  

^a Mother and Child Health in the Tropics   (Benin)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c Ministry of Public Health   (Benin)

^d Parasitology and Mycology Education and Research Unit   (Benin)

^e IRD ^*  (Benin)

Author keywords

Benin; Chloroquine; Drug efficacy; Falciparum malaria; Mefloquine; Sulfadoxine pyrimethamine

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR; FERROUS FUMARATE; MEFLOQUINE; PARACETAMOL; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE;

BLOOD; CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE TREATMENT; DRUG; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; GENOTYPE; MALARIA;

ARTICLE; BENIN; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TREATMENT FAILURE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIMALARIALS; BENIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEFLOQUINE; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AFRICA; BENIN [WEST AFRICA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 34347243907     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2007.01859.x     Document Type: Article

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