Artesunate plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Sudan
✍ Scribed by Sakina B Elamin, Elfatih M Malik, Tarig Abdelgadir, Ammar H Khamiss…
- Book ID
- 120687510
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 516 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1475-2875
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