Supervised versus unsupervised intake of six-dose artemether-lumefantrine for treatment of acute, uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Mbarara, Uganda: A randomised trial

Lancet

Volumn 365, Issue 9469, 2005, Pages 1467-1473

  Piola, Patrice ^a   Fogg, Carole ^a   Bajunirwe, Francis ^b   Biraro, Samuel ^a   Grandesso, Francesco ^a   Ruzagira, Eugene ^a   Babigumira, Joseph ^a   Kigozi, Isaac ^a   Kiguli, James ^b   Kyomuhendo, Juliet ^a   Ferradini, Laurent ^a   Taylor, Walter ^c   Checchi, Francesco ^a   Guthmann, Jean Paul ^a  

^a EPICENTRE   (France)

^b MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Uganda)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; BENFLUMETOL; ETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE; SESQUITERPENE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FEVER; DRUG SAFETY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INTAKE; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INGUINAL HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEASLES; NAUSEA; NUTRITION; OUTPATIENT; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UGANDA; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VOMITING; ACUTE DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG COMBINATION; INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ETHANOLAMINES; FEMALE; FLUORENES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; SESQUITERPENES;

EID: 17844383710     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)66416-1     Document Type: Article

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