Severe Malaria Not Responsive to Artemisinin Derivatives in Man Returning from Angola to Vietnam

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Resistance to artemisinin derivatives, the most potent antimalarial drugs currently used, has emerged in Southeast Asia and threatens to spread to Africa. We report a case of malaria in a man who returned to Vietnam after 3 years in Angola that did not respond to intravenous artesunate and clindamyc...

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Autores principales: Van Hong, Nguyen, Amambua-Ngwa, Alfred, Tuan, Nguyen Quang, Cuong, Do Duy, Giang, Nguyen Thi Huong, Van Dung, Nguyen, Tinh, Ta Thi, Van Tien, Nguyen, Phuc, Bui Quang, Duong, Tran Thanh, Rosanas-Urgell, Anna, D’Alessandro, Umberto, Van Geertruyden, Jean-Pierre, Erhart, Annette
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4073848/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24963881
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2007.140155
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Sumario:Resistance to artemisinin derivatives, the most potent antimalarial drugs currently used, has emerged in Southeast Asia and threatens to spread to Africa. We report a case of malaria in a man who returned to Vietnam after 3 years in Angola that did not respond to intravenous artesunate and clindamycin or an oral artemisinin-based combination.

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