Active case detection, treatment of falciparum malaria with combined chloroquine and sulphadoxine/pyrimethamine and vivax malaria with chloroquine and molecular markers of anti-malarial resistance in the Republic of Vanuatu

BACKGROUND: Chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum was first described in the Republic of Vanuatu in the early 1980s. In 1991, the Vanuatu Ministry of Health instituted new treatment guidelines for uncomplicated P. falciparum infection consisting of chloroquine/sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine combin...

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Autores principales: Kinzer, Michael H, Chand, Krisin, Basri, Hasan, Lederman, Edith R, Susanti, Augustina I, Elyazar, Iqbal, Taleo, George, Rogers, William O, Bangs, Michael J, Maguire, Jason D
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2853556/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20370920
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-89

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