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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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| 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 |