Manslaughter by Fake Artesunate in Asia—Will Africa Be Next?
Open Access
- 13 June 2006
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 3 (6), e197
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030197
Abstract
Fake artesunate could compromise the hope that artemisinin-based combination therapy offers for malaria control in Africa and Asia.Keywords
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