PMID: 7029457Oct 31, 1981Paper

Plasmodium falciparum malaria resistant to polychemotherapy. Usefulness of pathogen culture (author's transl)

La Nouvelle presse médicale
E DournonR Bastin

Abstract

In a patients with P. falciparum malaria contracted in Thailand, the course of the disease under treatment suggested resistance to both chloroquine and pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine, as well as reduced sensitivity to quinine. This was confirmed by in vitro tests on continuous culture of the strain. Therapeutic success was obtained with a quinine-cycline combination. The problems raised by the emergence of P. Falciparum strains resistant to polychemotherapy are emphasized.

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