Use of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy in a rural area of western Kenya with high coverage of insecticide-treated bed nets

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1134-1140

  Van Eijk, A M ^a,b   Blokland, I E ^c,e   Slutsker, L ^a,b   Odhiambo, F ^a,b   Ayisi, J G ^a   Bles, H M ^c,e   Rosen, D H ^a,b,d   Adazu, K ^a,b   Lindblade, K A ^b,d  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

IPT; Kenya; Malaria; Pregnancy; Sulfadoxine pyrimethamine

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR; INSECTICIDE; METAKELFIN; QUININE;

IMPREGNATED BEDNET; INSECTICIDE; MALARIA; PREGNANCY; RURAL POPULATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BED NET; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DELIVERY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FETUS RISK; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERMITTENT PREVENTIVE TREATMENT; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRENATAL CARE; RURAL AREA;

ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; BEDDING AND LINENS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSECTICIDES; KENYA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PRENATAL CARE; PYRIMETHAMINE; RURAL HEALTH; SULFADOXINE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

CINCHONA PUBESCENS;

EID: 27844472485     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2005.01497.x     Document Type: Article

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