Injections, cocktails and diviners: Therapeutic flexibility in the context of malaria elimination and drug resistance in Northeast Cambodia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Gryseels, Charlotte ^a   Uk, Sambunny ^b   Erhart, Annette ^a   Gerrets, René ^c   Sluydts, Vincent ^a   Durnez, Lies ^a   Ribera, Joan Muela ^d   Muela, Susanna Hausmann ^d   Menard, Didier ^e   Heng, Somony ^b   Sochantha, Tho ^b   D'Alessandro, Umberto ^f   Coosemans, Marc ^a,g   Grietens, Koen Peeters ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b National Center for Parasitology Entomology and Malaria Control   (Cambodia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d Partners for Applied Social Sciences   (Belgium)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR DU CAMBODGE   (Cambodia)

^f MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER; ARTESUNATE PLUS MEFLOQUINE; CHLOROQUINE; MALARINE; QUININE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ANOPHELES; ANTIMALARIAL DRUG RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; BED NET; CAMBODIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE ELIMINATION; DIZZINESS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG EFFICACY; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALARIA; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VOMITING;

ANTIMALARIALS; CAMBODIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; MALARIA;

EID: 84893177264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080343     Document Type: Article

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