Current measures of containment of multi-drug resistant falciparum malaria in Thailand.
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.
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Department of Communicable Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand.
D000359:Aftercare; D000962:Antimalarials / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D018432:Drug Resistance, Multiple; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D016778:Malaria, Falciparum / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008403:Mass Screening; D009032:Mosquito Control; D011159:Population Surveillance; D013785:Thailand / Q000453:epidemiology; D014171:Transients and Migrants
D000962:Antimalarials