Stevens-Johnson Syndrome Associated with Malarone Antimalarial Prophylaxis
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Stevens-Johnson syndrome associated with Malarone antimalarial prophylaxis.
To the best of our knowledge, Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) has not been reported previously as an adverse reaction to Malarone, which is a combination of atovaquone and proguanil hydrochloride used for antimalarial prophylaxis and therapy. We describe a 65-year-old patient who had SJS with typical clinical and histopathological findings associated with the use of Malarone prophylaxis for mala...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/375073