Molecular surveillance for multidrug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum, Cambodia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1637-1640

  Shah, Naman K ^a   Alker, Alisa P ^a   Sem, Rithy ^b,c   Susanti, Agustina Ika ^d   Muth, Sinuon ^b   Maguire, Jason D ^d   Duong, Socheat ^b   Ariey, Frederic ^c   Meshnick, Steven R ^a   Wongsrichanalai, Chansuda ^d,e  

^a IL   (United States)

^b National Center for Parasitology Entomology and Malaria Control   (Cambodia)

^c INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF CAMBODIA   (Cambodia)

^d US Naval Medical Research Unit No 2 Jakarta   (Indonesia)

^e Office of Public Health   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTESUNATE; MEFLOQUINE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CAMBODIA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CAMBODIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEFLOQUINE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 54249119920     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1410.080080     Document Type: Article

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