Current measures of containment of multi-drug resistant falciparum malaria in Thailand
Thimasarn, K.
Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 23(Suppl 4): 139-142
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0125-1562 PMID: 1364860 Document Number: 393517
Resistance of P. falciparum to mefloquine emerged along the Thai-Cambodian border following the falciparum malaria outbreak in Bo Rai areas in late 1988. Efforts have been made since then to prevent or delay the spread of multi-drug resistant strains by restricting the use of mefloquine, limiting the distribution of the drug for presumptive treatment and chemoprophylaxis, encouraging personal protection, strengthening the case follow-up system, increasing physician awareness, and mass treatment with primaquine of gem miners crossing the borders.