The last man standing is the most resistant: Eliminating artemisinin-resistant malaria in Cambodia

Malaria Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Maude, Richard J ^a,b   Pontavornpinyo, Wirichada ^a   Saralamba, Sompob ^a   Aguas, Ricardo ^c   Yeung, Shunmay ^a,d   Dondorp, Arjen M ^a,b   Day, Nicholas Pj ^a,b   White, Nicholas J ^a,b   White, Lisa J ^a  

^a MAHIDOL OXFORD TROPICAL MEDICINE RESEARCH UNIT   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ; ARTESUNATE; ATOVAQUONE; DIHYDROARTEMISININ; PIPERAQUINE; PRIMAQUINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE;

CAMBODIA; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ELIMINATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALARIA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MONOTHERAPY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; THERAPY EFFECT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CAMBODIA; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 63149179142     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-8-31     Document Type: Review

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