The safety of the combination artesunate and pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine given during pregnancy

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 424-428

  Deen, J L ^a   Von Seidlein, L ^a,b,c   Pinder, M ^a   Walraven, G E L ^a   Greenwood, B M ^b  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c International Vaccine Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Artesunate; Chemotherapy; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Pregnancy; Primagravida; Pyrimethamine sulfadoxine; Teratogenicity; The Gambia

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; ARTESUNATE; FANSIDAR; PYRIMETHAMINE; SESQUITERPENE; SULFADOXINE; SULFADOXINE-PYRIMETHAMINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; BIRTH WEIGHT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GRAVIDITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PYRIMETHAMINE; SESQUITERPENES; SULFADOXINE;

EID: 0035404880     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(01)90204-4     Document Type: Article

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