Possible artemisinin-based combination therapy-resistant malaria in Nigeria: A report of three cases

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 525-527

  Ajayi, Nnennaya Anthony ^a   Ukwaja, Kingsley Nnanna ^a  

^a Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Artemether lumefantrine; Artemisinin based combination therapy; Early treatment failure; Malaria; Nigeria; Resistance

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIANEMIC AGENT; ARTEETHER; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTEMISININ; ARTESUNATE; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; NITRATE; OFLOXACIN; PARACETAMOL; PYRIMETHAMINE PLUS SULFADOXINE; QUININE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMALARIAL DRUG RESISTANCE; ARTEMISININ COMBINATION THERAPY RESISTANT MALARIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHILL; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COUGHING; DEHYDRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NEUTROPHILIA; PALLOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEINURIA; SEPSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX PAIN; URINALYSIS; VOMITING; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG RESISTANCE; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT FAILURE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; QUININE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 84882936892     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/0037-8682-0098-2013     Document Type: Article

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