Journal article
Malaria on the Thai-Burmese border: treatment of 5192 patients with mefloquine-sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine.
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Multidrug-resistant falciparum malaria is a major health problem along the Thai-Burmese border. From July 1985 until December 1986 a total of 5192 patients with falciparum malaria (1734 males, 3458 females) from this area were given supervised treatment with the combination mefloquine-sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (MSP). The radical cure rate, assessed 21 days after drug administration, was 98.4% for the first 1975 patients, and 98.8% when assessed at 28 days for the remaining 3217 patients. In 3...
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- Published
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- Journal:
- Bulletin of the World Health Organization
- Volume:
- 65
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 891-896
- Publication date:
- 1987-01-01
- EISSN:
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1564-0604
- ISSN:
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0042-9686
- Source identifiers:
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28252
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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- pubs:28252
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- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 1987
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