Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 97, Issue 6 , Pages 697-701 , November 2003

Chloroquine blood concentrations and molecular markers of chloroquine-resistantPlasmodium falciparum in febrile children in northern Ghana

  • Stephan Ehrhardt

      Affiliations

    • Institut fuer Tropenmedizin Berlin, Charité, Humboldt- Universitaet zu Berlin, Spandauer Damm 130, 14050 Berlin, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Dr med Stephan Ehrhardt,Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Str. 74, 20359 Hamburg, Germany; phone +49 40 42818 373, fax +49 40 42818 394
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  • Frank P. Mockenhaupt

      Affiliations

    • Institut fuer Tropenmedizin Berlin, Charité, Humboldt- Universitaet zu Berlin, Spandauer Damm 130, 14050 Berlin, Germany
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  • Teunis A. Eggelte

      Affiliations

    • Division of Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine and AIDS, Academic Medical Centre, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ,Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Patrick Agana-Nsiire

      Affiliations

    • Ministry of Health, Tamale, P.O. Box 99, Ghana
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  • Karsten Stollberg

      Affiliations

    • Institut fuer Tropenmedizin Berlin, Charité, Humboldt- Universitaet zu Berlin, Spandauer Damm 130, 14050 Berlin, Germany
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  • Sylvester D. Anemana

      Affiliations

    • Ministry of Health, Tamale, P.O. Box 99, Ghana
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  • Rowland N. Otchwemah

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine and HealthSciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, P. O. Box TL 1883, Ghana
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  • Ulrich Bienzle

      Affiliations

    • Institut fuer Tropenmedizin Berlin, Charité, Humboldt- Universitaet zu Berlin, Spandauer Damm 130, 14050 Berlin, Germany

Received 27 February 2003 ,Revised 19 May 2003 ,Accepted 23 May 2003.

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Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 97, Issue 6 , Pages 697-701 , November 2003

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