Therapeutic efficacy of chloroquine and sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine against Plasmodium falciparum infection in Somalia

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 80, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 704-708

  Warsame, M ^a,d   Abdillahi, A ^b   Nur Duale, O ^c   Nur Ismail, A ^d   Hassan, A M ^e   Mohamed, A ^f   Warsame, A ^d  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Ministry of Health and Labour   (Somalia)

^c Merca District Hospital   (Somalia)

^d WHO Laboratory ^*  (Tanzania)

^e Ministry of Health and Labour   (Somalia)

^f Mogadishu City Laboratory   (Somalia)

Author keywords

Antimalarials therapeutic use; Chloroquine therapeutic use; Drug resistance; Malaria, Falciparum drug therapy; Pyrimethamine therapeutic use; Somalia (source MeSH, NLM); Sulfadoxine therapeutic use; Treatment failure; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR;

DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG PRESCRIBING; DRUG RESISTANCE; MALARIA; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SOMALIA; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG EVALUATION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PYRIMETHAMINE; SOMALIA; SULFADOXINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

SOMALIA;

EID: 0036376624     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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