Publications
| chloroquine-resistant plasmodium falciparum malaria in ethiopia. | standard triple-dose therapy with chloroquine (25 mg base/kg) failed to clear asexual plasmodium falciparum parasites from the blood of 22 of 98 patients infected in various parts of ethiopia and evaluated in addis ababa, a malaria-free city. ri to riii levels of resistance were demonstrated in those patients. the resistant isolates were confined to areas bordering somalia, kenya, and sudan. in in-vitro tests 7 of 10 (70%) isolates were chloroquine-resistant. | 1986 | 2873398 |
| duffy blood types and vivax malaria in ethiopia. | we investigated an hypothesis relating the duffy-negative blood type with insusceptibility to vivax malaria--and previously associated only with people of west african ancestry--in three population samples of eastern african stock. the samples included nilotic and hamitic-semitic residents of a malarious locale in ethiopia and hamito-semites in addis ababa where malaria is not endemic. fresh red blood cells from 191 subjects were tested with duffy antisera, anti-fya and anti-fyb. duffy-positive ... | 1981 | 7015888 |