Compliance to correct dose of chloroquine in uncomplicated malaria correlates with improvement in the condition of rural Nigerian children

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 320-324

  Okonkwo, P O ^a   Akpala, C O ^a   Okafor, H U ^a   Mbah, A U ^a   Nwaiwu, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Children; Chloroquine; Compliance; Health education; Malaria; Nigeria; Packaging

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFANT; MALARIA; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NIGERIA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLICATION;

ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; NIGERIA; PAMPHLETS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; RURAL HEALTH;

EID: 0035348306     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(01)90252-4     Document Type: Article

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