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Efficacy of chloroquine plus primaquine treatment and pfcrt mutation in uncomplicated falciparum malaria patients in Rangamati, Bangladesh.
Parasitology international - 1 Dec 2011
Kawai Atsuko, Arita Namie, Matsumoto Yasuyo, Kawabata Masato, Chowdhury M Stephen, Saito-Ito Atsuko
Abstract excerpt
A combination of chloroquine (CQ) and primaquine (PQ) had been used as the first-line treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Rangamati, Bangladesh until the end of 2004. Doctors or medical staffs had felt that CQ plus PQ had become less effective against uncomplicated falciparum malaria patients, but that it was more effective against the minority-indigenous patients than the Bengali...
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