Clinical status and implications of antimalarial drug resistance.
Africa carries the greatest burden of disease caused by Plasmodium falciparum, and we can expect this burden to rise in the near future, mainly because of drug resistance. Although effective drugs are available (such as artemether-lumefantrine, mefloquine, atovaquone-proguanil and halofantrine) they...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2002
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