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In vitro monitoring of Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance in French Guiana: a synopsis of continuous assessment from 1994 to 2005.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Jan 2008
Legrand Eric, Volney Béatrice, Meynard Jean-Baptiste, Mercereau-Puijalon Odile, Esterre Philippe
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Implemented as one arm of the malaria control program in French Guiana in the early 1990s, our laboratory has since established in vitro profiles for parasite drug susceptibility to a panel of eight antimalarials for more than 1,000 Plasmodium falciparum isolates from infected patients. The quinine-doxycycline combination was introduced in 1995 as the first-line drug treatment against uncomplicated P. falciparum...
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