Efficacy of chloroquine + sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, mefloquine + artesunate and artemether + lumefantrine combination therapies to treat Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 727-735

  van den Broek, Ingrid V ^a,b   Maung, U A ^c   Peters, A ^c   Liem, L ^d   Kamal, M ^c   Rahman, M ^c   Rahman, M R ^e   Bangali, A M ^f   Das, S ^g   Barends, M ^h   Faiz, A M ^e  

^a MSF UK   (United Kingdom)

^b EPICENTRE   (France)

^c MSF Holland ^*  (Bangladesh)

^d MSF   (Netherlands)

^e CHITTAGONG MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Bangladesh)

^f WHO   (Bangladesh)

^g District Health Services   (Bangladesh)

^h SHOKLO MALARIA RESEARCH UNIT   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Artemether; Artesunate; Bangladesh; Chloroquine; Lumefantrine; Malaria; Mefloquine; Plasmodium falciparum; Sulfadoxine pyrimethamine

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTESUNATE; CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR; MEFLOQUINE; QUININE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; GAMETOCYTE; HEADACHE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MONOTHERAPY; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; SIDE EFFECT; SWEATING; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ETHANOLAMINES; FEMALE; FLUORENES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEFLOQUINE; PYRIMETHAMINE; SESQUITERPENES; SULFADOXINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARTESUNATE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 23844454124     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2005.02.007     Document Type: Article

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