Lack of evidence for chloroquine-resistant plasmodium falciparum malaria, Leogane, Haiti

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1487-1489

  Neuberger, Ami ^a   Zhong, Kathleen ^b   Kain, Kevin C ^b   Schwartz, Eli ^c,d  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHLOROQUINE; CHLOROQUINE RESISTANCE TRANSPORTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLERGIC REACTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; FEMALE; HAITI; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84865325603     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1809.120605     Document Type: Article

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