Journal article
Auditory assessment of patients with acute uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria treated with three-day mefloquine-artesunate on the north-western border of Thailand.
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BACKGROUND: The use of artemisinin derivatives has increased exponentially with the deployment of artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) in all malarious areas. They are highly effective and are considered safe, but in animal studies artemisinin derivatives produce neurotoxicity targeting mainly the auditory and vestibular pathways. The debate remains as to whether artemisinin derivatives induce similar toxicity in humans. METHODS: This prospective study assessed the effects on auditory funct...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Wellcome Trust
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Malaria Journal Journal website
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 233
- Publication date:
- 2008-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1475-2875
- ISSN:
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1475-2875
- Source identifiers:
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19024
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:19024
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Carrara et al
- Copyright date:
- 2008
- Notes:
- © 2008 Carrara 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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