Journal article
Evaluation of chloroquine therapy for vivax and falciparum malaria in southern Sumatra, western Indonesia.
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BACKGROUND: Chloroquine was used as first-line treatment for Plasmodium falciparum or Plasmodium vivax in Indonesia before the initial launch of artemisinin combination therapy in 2004. A study to evaluate efficacies of chloroquine against P. falciparum and P. vivax was undertaken at Lampung in southern Sumatra, western Indonesia in 2002. METHODS: Patients infected by P. falciparum or P. vivax were treated with 25 mg/kg chloroquine base in three daily doses over 48 hr. Finger prick blood was...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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WHO SEARO, New Delhi
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South East Asia Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Malaria Journal Journal website
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 52
- Publication date:
- 2010-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1475-2875
- ISSN:
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1475-2875
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- pubs:51988
- Source identifiers:
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51988
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Sutanto et al
- Copyright date:
- 2010
- Notes:
- © 2010 Sutanto et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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