Reduced ex vivo susceptibility of Plasmodium falciparum after oral artemether-lumefantrine treatment in Mali

Malaria Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 1-6

  Dama, Souleymane ^a   Niangaly, Hamidou ^a   Ouattara, Amed ^a   Sagara, Issaka ^a   Sissoko, Sekou ^a   Traore, Oumar Bila ^a   Bamadio, Amadou ^a   Dara, Niawanlou ^a   Djimde, Moussa ^a   Alhousseini, Mohamed Lamine ^a   Goita, Siaka ^a   Maiga, Hamma ^a   Dara, Antoine ^a   Doumbo, Ogobara K ^a   Djimde, Abdoulaye A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMAKO   (Mali)

Author keywords

Artemether; Ex vivo; In vivo; K13 propeller; Lumefantrine; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; MOLECULAR MARKER; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; ETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE;

ALLELE; ANTIMALARIAL DRUG RESISTANCE; ANTIMALARIAL DRUG SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; EX VIVO STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; IC50; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALI; PARASITE ISOLATION; PFCRT GENE; PFMDR1 GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WILD TYPE; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ETHANOLAMINES; FLUORENES; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALI; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RECURRENCE;

EID: 85011320872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-017-1700-8     Document Type: Article

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