Chloroquine-resistant plasmodium falciparum at the Tanganyika planting company(TPC) sugar estate,moshi,Tanzania.
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1985
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World Health Organization
Abstract
From 1966 to 1978 the TPC maintained a mass malaria chemoprophylactic programme based on chloroquine.However after reports of treatment failure to 25 mg chloroquine base per kg body weight,the sensitivity of plasmodium falciparum to chloroquine at the TPC sugar estate near Moshi,northern Tanzania,was determined.In Vivo and In vitro test utilizing standard methods were carried out on semi-immune asymptomatic primary-school children whose ages ranged from 8 to 18 years,with a mean age of 12 years.These children were selected from a total of 746 school children who had been screen for malaria parasites and of whom 245(32.8%)were found to be to be positive.
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Chloroquine, Plasmodium falciparum, Tanzania
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Mutabingwa, T.K., Kilimali, V.A.E., Kilama, W.L. and World Health Organization, 1985. Chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum at the Tanganyika Planting Company sugar estate, Moshi, Tanzania (No. WHO/MAL/85.1020. Unpublished). World Health Organization.