For severe malaria, artesunate is the answer

The Lancet

Volumn 376, Issue 9753, 2010, Pages 1621-1622

  Shanks, G Dennis ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN ARMY MALARIA INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; ARTESUNATE; QUININE;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG SAFETY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDAN;

EID: 78449288899     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61928-9     Document Type: Note

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