Mefloquine pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic models: implications for dosing and resistance.
Antimalarial resistance develops and spreads when spontaneously occurring mutant malaria parasites are selected by concentrations of antimalarial drug which are sufficient to eradicate the more sensitive parasites but not those with the resistance mutation(s). Mefloquine, a slowly eliminated quinoli...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2000
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