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A stratified random survey of the proportion of poor quality oral artesunate sold at medicine outlets in the Lao PDR – implications for therapeutic failure and drug resistance
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* Corresponding author: Paul N Newton paul@tropmedres.ac
1 Food and Drug Department, Ministry of Health, Government of the Lao PDR, Vientiane, Lao PDR
2 Division of Parasitic Diseases, US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
3 School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
4 Food and Drug Quality Control Centre, Ministry of Health, Government of the Lao PDR, Vientiane, Lao PDR
5 GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
6 Centre for Malariology, Parasitology & Entomology, Government of the Lao PDR, Vientiane, Lao PDR
7 Wellcome Trust – Mahosot Hospital – Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Collaboration, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR
8 Center for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, Churchill Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Malaria Journal 2009, 8:172 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-8-172
Published: 28 July 2009Additional files
Additional file 1:
Details of samples of artesunate blisterpacks collected in Laos by stratified random sampling. The table describes the packaging détails and chemistry data for all the samples collected.
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