Quinine-resistant malaria in traveler returning from French Guiana, 2010

Emerg Infect Dis. 2011 May;17(5):943-5. doi: 10.3201/eid1705.101424.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Antimalarials / pharmacology*
  • Antimalarials / therapeutic use*
  • Doxycycline / pharmacology
  • Doxycycline / therapeutic use
  • Drug Resistance / drug effects
  • Drug Resistance / genetics
  • France
  • French Guiana
  • Humans
  • Malaria, Falciparum / diagnosis
  • Malaria, Falciparum / drug therapy*
  • Male
  • Membrane Transport Proteins / genetics
  • Mutation / genetics
  • Plasmodium falciparum / drug effects*
  • Plasmodium falciparum / genetics
  • Plasmodium falciparum / isolation & purification
  • Point Mutation
  • Polymorphism, Genetic / genetics
  • Protozoan Proteins / genetics
  • Quinine / pharmacology*
  • Quinine / therapeutic use*
  • Treatment Failure

Substances

  • Antimalarials
  • Membrane Transport Proteins
  • PfCRT protein, Plasmodium falciparum
  • Protozoan Proteins
  • Quinine
  • Doxycycline