Efficacy of pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine in young children with uncomplicated falciparum malaria in rural Burkina Faso

Malaria Journal

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Müller, Olaf ^a   Traore, Corneille ^b   Kouyate, Bocar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN SANTÉ DE NOUNA   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FANSIDAR;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BURKINA FASO; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL AREA; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIMALARIALS; BURKINA FASO; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 17944400428     PISSN: 14752875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-3-10     Document Type: Article

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