TY - JOUR AU - Van Hong, Nguyen AU - Amambua-Ngwa, Alfred AU - Tuan, Nguyen Quang AU - Cuong, Do Duy AU - Giang, Nguyen Thi Huong AU - Van Dung, Nguyen AU - Tinh, Ta Thi AU - Van Tien, Nguyen AU - Phuc, Bui Quang AU - Duong, Tran Thanh AU - Rosanas-Urgell, Anna AU - D’Alessandro, Umberto AU - Van Geertruyden, Jean-Pierre AU - Erhart, Annette T1 - Severe Malaria Not Responsive to Artemisinin Derivatives in Man Returning from Angola to Vietnam T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2014 VL - 20 IS - 7 SP - 1207 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Resistance to artemisinin derivatives, the most potent antimalarial drugs currently used, has emerged in Southeast Asia and threatens to spread to Africa. We report a case of malaria in a man who returned to Vietnam after 3 years in Angola that did not respond to intravenous artesunate and clindamycin or an oral artemisinin-based combination. KW - malaria KW - severe malaria KW - parasites KW - Plasmodium falciparum KW - drug resistance KW - artemisinin KW - Vietnam KW - Angola KW - cerebral malaria KW - artemisinins KW - travel medicine DO - 10.3201/eid2007.140155 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/7/14-0155_article ER - End of Reference