Treatment of falciparum malaria in the age of drug resistance

The growing problem of drug resistance has greatly complicated the treatment for falciparum malaria. Whereaschloroquine and sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine could once cure most infections, this is no longer true and requiresexamination of alternative regimens. Not all treatment failures are drug resistant...

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Main Author: Shanks G
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2006-01-01
Series:Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
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Online Access:http://www.jpgmonline.com/article.asp?issn=0022-3859;year=2006;volume=52;issue=4;spage=277;epage=280;aulast=Shanks