Low efficacy of amodiaquine or chloroquine plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine against Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax malaria in Papua New Guinea

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 947-954

  Marfurt, Jutta ^b   Müeller, Ivo ^c   Sie, Albert ^c   Maku, Peter ^c   Goroti, Mary ^c   Reeder, John C ^d   Beck, Hans Peter ^e   Genton, Blaise ^a  

^a IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^b Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA   (Switzerland)

^c PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^d BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e MP 511 ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ARTESUNATE; CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE; SULFADOXINE-PYRIMETHAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; ANIMAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RESISTANCE; MALARIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

AMODIAQUINE; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE;

EID: 42949115092     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2007.77.947     Document Type: Article

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