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Volume 98, Issue 5 , Pages 311-314 , May 2004

Decreasing clinical efficacy of chloroquine in Ankazobe, Central Highlands of Madagascar

M.L Willcox
- Institut Malgache de Recherches Appliquées, BP 3833, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar
- Laboratoire de Parasitologie et Bactériologie, Service de Santé de District, Ankazobe 108, Madagascar
- Research Initiative for Traditional Antimalarial Methods, 36 Hare Close, Buckingham MK18 7EW, UK
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +44-1280-814103.
E Rakotondrazafy
- Laboratoire de Parasitologie et Bactériologie, Service de Santé de District, Ankazobe 108, Madagascar
R Andriamanalimanana
- Institut Malgache de Recherches Appliquées, BP 3833, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar
- Service de Réanimation, CHU–HJRA, Ampefiloha, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar
D Andrianasolo
- Institut Malgache de Recherches Appliquées, BP 3833, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar
- Service de Réanimation, CHU–HJRA, Ampefiloha, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar
P Rasoanaivo
- Institut Malgache de Recherches Appliquées, BP 3833, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar
- Research Initiative for Traditional Antimalarial Methods, 36 Hare Close, Buckingham MK18 7EW, UK

Received 7 July 2003 ,Revised 7 October 2003 ,Accepted 13 October 2003.

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