Amodiaquine alone, amodiaquine+sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, amodiaquine+artesunate, and artemether-lumefantrine for outpatient treatment of malaria in Tanzanian children: A four-arm randomised effectiveness trial

Lancet

Volumn 365, Issue 9469, 2005, Pages 1474-1480

  Mutabingwa, Theonest K ^a,b   Anthony, Devota ^c   Heller, Archie ^c   Hallett, Rachel ^a   Ahmed, Jalal ^a   Drakeley, Chris ^a,d   Greenwood, Brian M ^a   Whitty, Christopher J M ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^c Teule Hospital   (Tanzania)

^d Joint Malaria Programme   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTESUNATE; FANSIDAR; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; BENFLUMETOL; ETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE; PYRIMETHAMINE; SESQUITERPENE; SULFADOXINE; SULFADOXINE-PYRIMETHAMINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMETOCYTE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIDE EFFECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TANZANIA; ANIMAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RESISTANCE; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

AMODIAQUINE; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ETHANOLAMINES; FEMALE; FLUORENES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PYRIMETHAMINE; SESQUITERPENES; SULFADOXINE; TANZANIA;

EID: 17844404530     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)66417-3     Document Type: Article

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