Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2014)

Severe Malaria Not Responsive to Artemisinin Derivatives in Man Returning from Angola to Vietnam

  • Nguyen Van Hong,
  • Alfred Amambua-Ngwa,
  • Nguyen Quang Tuan,
  • Do Duy Cuong,
  • Nguyen Thi Huong Giang,
  • Nguyen Van Dung,
  • Ta Thi Tinh,
  • Nguyen Van Tien,
  • Bui Quang Phuc,
  • Tran Thanh Duong,
  • Anna Rosanas-Urgell,
  • Umberto D’Alessandro,
  • Jean-Pierre Van Geertruyden,
  • Annette Erhart

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2007.140155
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 7
pp. 1207 – 1210

Abstract

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Resistance to artemisinin derivatives, the most potent antimalarial drugs currently used, has emerged in Southeast Asia and threatens to spread to Africa. We report a case of malaria in a man who returned to Vietnam after 3 years in Angola that did not respond to intravenous artesunate and clindamycin or an oral artemisinin-based combination.

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