Screening and Treating UN Peacekeepers to Prevent the Introduction of Artemisinin-Resistant Malaria into Africa

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Houston, Stan ^a   Houston, Adam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Institute for Justice Democracy in Haiti   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; CHLOROQUINE; PRIMAQUINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE;

ANTIMALARIAL DRUG RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHOLERA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; SOLDIER; TRANSMISSION; UNITED NATIONS;

ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ARTEMISININS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; MALARIA; MILITARY PERSONNEL; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 84930527129     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001822     Document Type: Article

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