Effects of chloroquine and sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine on gametocytes in patients with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Colombia

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1221-1223

  Osorio, Lyda ^a,b   Ferro, Beatriz E ^a   Castillo, Carmen M ^a  

^a CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ENTRENAMIENTO E INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS CIDEIM   (Colombia)

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

Author keywords

Antimalarial drugs; Colombia; Gametocytes; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE; SULFADOXINE-PYRIMETHAMINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; HUMAN; INFANT; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; COLOMBIA; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PYRIMETHAMINE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SULFADOXINE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0036979811     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762002000800026     Document Type: Article

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