Artesunate misuse and Plasmodium falciparum malaria in traveler returning from Africa

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1608-1610

  Shahinas, Dea ^a   Lau, Rachel ^b   Khairnar, Krishna ^a   Hancock, David ^c   Pillai, Dylan R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c Ajax Pickering Hospital   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE 6; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMISININ; ARTESUNATE; CHLOROQUINE; DIHYDROARTEMISININ; HEMOGLOBIN; MEFLOQUINE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; DEHYDRATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MISUSE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; IC 50; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITEMIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADULT; AFRICA; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CANADA; CHEMOPREVENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION 50; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; NIGERIA; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SELF MEDICATION; TRAVEL;

EID: 77958593689     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1610.100427     Document Type: Article

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