Multidrug-Resistant Plasmodium vivax Associated with Severe and Fatal Malaria: A Prospective Study in Papua, Indonesia

Tjitra, Emiliana; M. Anstey, Nicholas; Sugiarto, Paulus; Warikar, Noah; Kenangalem, Enny; Karyana, Muhammad; A. Lampah, Daniel; N. Price, Ric

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050128

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Multidrug-Resistant Plasmodium vivax Associated with Severe and Fatal Malaria: A Prospective Study in Papua, Indonesia

Published in PLoS Medicine • Jun 11, 2008

Authors:

Emiliana Tjitra

Nicholas M. Anstey

Paulus Sugiarto

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Multidrug-resistant Plasmodium vivax (Pv) is widespread in eastern Indonesia, and emerging elsewhere in Asia-Pacific and South America, but is generally regarded as a benign disease. The aim of the study was to review the spectrum of disease associated with malaria due to Pv and P. falci...

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Malaria

Medicine

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