Artemisinin: The gifts from traditional Chinese medicine not only for malaria control but also for schistosomiasis control

Parasitology Research

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2071-2074

  Liu, Rong ^a   Dong, Hui Fen ^a   Jiang, Ming Sen ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER; ARTEMISIN; ARTESUNATE; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMA MEKONGI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ARTEMISININS; CHINA; HUMANS; LEPIDOPTERA; MALARIA; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

ARTESUNATE; JAPONICA;

EID: 84863497510     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2707-7     Document Type: Article

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