Artemisinin combination therapies and malaria parasite drug resistance: the game is afoot.
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Steve M. Taylor and Jonathan J. Juliano Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, and Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, North Carolina; Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, and Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of infectious diseases
دوره 210 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014