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Artesunate Misuse and Plasmodium Falciparum Malaria in Traveler Returning from Africa

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Journal Emerg Infect Dis
Specialty Infectious Diseases
Date 2010 Sep 30
PMID 20875291
Citations 14
Authors
Dea Shahinas
Rachel Lau
Krishna Khairnar
David Hancock
Dylan R Pillai
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Abstract

Plasmodium falciparum malaria developed in an African-born traveler who returned to Canada after visiting Nigeria. While there, she took artesunate prophylactically. Isolates had an elevated 50% inhibitory concentration to artemisinin, artesunate, and artemether, compared with that of other African isolates. Inappropriate use of artemisinin derivatives can reduce P. falciparum susceptibility.

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