Active case detection, treatment of falciparum malaria with combined chloroquine and sulphadoxine/pyrimethamine and vivax malaria with chloroquine and molecular markers of anti-malarial resistance in the Republic of Vanuatu

• Published in: Malaria Journal
• Main Authors: Rogers William O, Taleo George, Elyazar Iqbal, Susanti Augustina I, Lederman Edith R, Basri Hasan, Chand Krisin, Kinzer Michael H, Bangs Michael J, Maguire Jason D
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2010
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Malo
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-89; https://doaj.org/article/07e24fb88f9a4555927337747de914a2

Abstract Background Chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum was first described in the Republic of Vanuatu in the early 1980s. In 1991, the Vanuatu Ministry of Health instituted new treatment guidelines for uncomplicated P. falciparum infection consisting of chloroquine/sulphadoxine-pyrimethamin...