Failure of dihydroartemisinin plus piperaquine treatment of falciparum malaria by under-dosing in an overweight patient

BACKGROUND: Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) introduced in the mid-1990s has been recommended since 2005 by the World Health Organization as first-line treatment against Plasmodium falciparum in all endemic countries. In 2010, the combination dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine (DP) was recomm...

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Autores principales: Roseau, Jean Baptiste, Pradines, Bruno, Paleiron, Nicolas, Vedy, Serge, Madamet, Marylin, Simon, Fabrice, Javelle, Emilie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5028982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27646822
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1535-8

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5028982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27646822
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1535-8

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