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Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology Volume 79, 1985 - Issue 6
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Susceptibility of Plasmodium falciparum to chloroquine in northern Liberia after 20 years of chemosuppression and therapy

A. BjörkmanThe Yekepa Clinical Research and Training Unit of the Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research, Liberia and Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institute, Roslagstull Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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L. RomboThe Yekepa Clinical Research and Training Unit of the Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research, Liberia and Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institute, Roslagstull Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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G. HetlandThe Yekepa Clinical Research and Training Unit of the Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research, Liberia and Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institute, Roslagstull Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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M. WillcoxThe Yekepa Clinical Research and Training Unit of the Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research, Liberia and Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institute, Roslagstull Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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A. P. HansonThe Yekepa Clinical Research and Training Unit of the Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research, Liberia and Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institute, Roslagstull Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Pages 603-606 | Received 06 Jul 1984, Published online: 15 Nov 2016

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