Chloroquine blood concentrations and molecular markers of chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum in febrile children in northern Ghana

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 697-701

  Ehrhardt, Stephan ^a,e   Mockenhaupt, Frank P ^a   Eggelte, Teunis A ^b   Agana Nsiire, Patrick ^c   Stollberg, Karsten ^a   Anemana, Sylvester D ^c   Otchwemah, Rowland N ^d   Bienzle, Ulrich ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Ghana)

^d UNIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Ghana)

^e BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Chloroquine; Drug resistance; Ghana; Malaria; pfcrt; pfmdr1; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

ARTESUNATE; CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR; GENE PRODUCT; MOLECULAR MARKER; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CHOICE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEVER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; GHANA; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MARKER GENE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PFCRT GENE; PFMDR1 GENE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SELF MEDICATION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; FEVER; GHANA; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

ARTESUNATE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 4243052029     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(03)80106-2     Document Type: Article

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