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Deployment of early diagnosis and mefloquine-artesunate treatment of falciparum malaria in Thailand: the Tak Malaria Initiative.
- Abstract:
- Early diagnosis and treatment with artesunate-mefloquine combination therapy (MAS) have reduced the transmission of falciparum malaria dramatically and halted the progression of mefloquine resistance in camps for displaced persons along the Thai-Burmese border, an area of low and seasonal transmission of multidrug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum. We extended the same combination drug strategy to all other communities (estimated population 450,000) living in five border districts of Tak province in northwestern Thailand.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030183
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- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science
- Journal:
- PLoS Med More from this journal
- Volume:
- 3
- Issue:
- 6
- Article number:
- e183
- Publication date:
- 2006-06-01
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1549-1676
- ISSN:
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1549-1277
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English
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- Carrara et al
- Copyright date:
- 2006
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- PMCID: PMC1470664 © 2006 Carrara et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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