Randomized comparison of intramuscular artemether and intravenous quinine in adult, Melanesian patients with severe or complicated, plasmodium falciparum malaria in Papua New Guinea

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 133-139

  Seaton, R A ^a,b,c   Trevett, A J ^a,b   Wembri, J P ^a   Nwokolo, N ^a   Naraqi, S ^a   Black, J ^a   Laurenson, I F ^a   Kevau, I ^a   Saweri, A ^a   Lalloo, D G ^a,b   Warrell, D A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA   (Papua New Guinea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c King's Cross Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER; QUININE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; JAUNDICE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MELANESIA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TEMPERATURE;

CINCHONA PUBESCENS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTOZOA;

EID: 6844250109     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034983.1998.11813272     Document Type: Article

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