The rise and fall of the antimalarial Lapdap: A lesson in pharmacogenetics

The Lancet

Volumn 376, Issue 9742, 2010, Pages 739-741

  Luzzatto, Lucio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO TOSCANO TUMORI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPROGUANIL; DAPSONE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALOPRIM; PYRIMETHAMINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROGUANIL, DAPSONE DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG COMBINATION; PROGUANIL;

ANTIMALARIAL DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE; HUMAN; LEPROSY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOGENETICS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG RESISTANCE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; ANTIMALARIALS; DAPSONE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PHARMACOGENETICS; PROGUANIL;

EID: 77956268006     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60396-0     Document Type: Note

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