Antimalarials and the fight against malaria in Brazil

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 311-317

  Carmargo, Luiz M A ^a   De Oliveira, Saulo ^b   Basano, Sergio ^c   Garcia, Célia R S ^b  

^a ICBV USP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c CEMETRON ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antimalarials; Calcium; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTEMISIN; ARTEMISININ; ARTESUNATE; CHLOROQUINE; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; HALOFANTRINE; LINCOMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE; MEFLOQUINE; PLANT EXTRACT; PRIMAQUINE; QUININE; QUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTEMISIA; BRAZIL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG ISOLATION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MEDICINAL PLANT; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

EID: 77949449868     PISSN: 11766336     EISSN: 1178203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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