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Case Reports
. 2015 Aug;21(8):1485-6.
doi: 10.3201/eid2108.150524.

Malaria Prophylaxis Failure with Doxycycline, Central African Republic, 2014

Marylin Madamet, Tiphaine Gaillard, Guillaume Velut, Cecile Ficko, Pascal Houzé, Claire Bylicki, Stéphane Mérat, Sandrine Houzé, Nicolas Taudon, Rémy Michel, Pierre Pasquier, Christophe Rapp, Bruno Pradines
Case Reports

Malaria Prophylaxis Failure with Doxycycline, Central African Republic, 2014

Marylin Madamet et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Aug.
No abstract available

Keywords: Central African Republic; France; Plasmodium falciparum; antimalarial drug; antimicrobial resistance; doxycycline; in vitro; malaria; parasites; prophylaxis; travel.

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