First case of treatment failure of artemether-lumefantrine in a Japanese traveler with imported falciparum malaria

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 139-141

  Mizuno, Yasutaka ^a,b   Kato, Yasuyuki ^a   Kudo, Koichiro ^a   Kano, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Embassy of Japan in Vietnam   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER LUMEFANTRINE COMBINATION; ARTEMETHER-LUMEFANTRINE COMBINATION; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; ETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FATIGUE; FEVER; FOOD DRUG INTERACTION; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LABORATORY TEST; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRAVEL; ANIMAL; ASIAN; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ETHANOLAMINES; FLUORENES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TRAVEL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 66849131273     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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