Artesunate reduces but does not prevent posttreatment transmission of Plasmodium falciparum to Anopheles gambiae

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 183, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1254-1259

  Targett, Geoffrey ^a   Drakeley, Christopher ^a   Jawara, Musa ^a   Von Seidlein, Lorenz ^a   Coleman, Rosalind ^a   Deen, Jaqueline ^a   Pinder, Margaret ^a   Doherty, Tom ^a   Sutherland, Colin ^a   Walraven, Gijs ^a   Milligan, Paul ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTESUNATE; CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CELL DENSITY; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GAMBIA; GAMETOCYTE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; GAMBIA; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PYRIMETHAMINE; SESQUITERPENES; SULFADOXINE;

EID: 0035871788     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/319689     Document Type: Article

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