Compliance with 14-day primaquine therapy for radical cure of vivax malaria - A randomized placebo-controlled trial comparing unsupervised with supervised treatment

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 168-173

  Leslie, Toby ^a,b   Rab, Mohammad Abdur ^a   Ahmadzai, Hayat ^a   Durrani, Naeem ^a   Fayaz, Mohammad ^a   Kolaczinski, Jan ^a,b   Rowland, Mark ^a,b  

^a Department of Research and Development   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

Afghan refugees; Compliance; Malaria; Pakistan; Plasmodium vivax; Primaquine

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATASE; PLACEBO; PRIMAQUINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; ERYTHROCYTE; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SELECTION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENCE RISK; REFUGEE; RELAPSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIDE EFFECT; ADULT; AGED; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIMAQUINE;

EID: 1842609544     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(03)00041-5     Document Type: Article

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