Artemether in the treatment of falciparum malaria during pregnancy in eastern Sudan

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 98, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 509-513

  Adam, Ishag ^a   Elwasila, Eltaib ^a   Mohammed Ali, Daw Alnour ^a   Elansari, Elhassan ^b   Elbashir, Mustafa Idris ^c  

^a New Halfa Teaching Hospital Sudan   (Sudan)

^b University of Kassalla   (Sudan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Artemether; Falciparum malaria; Neonates; Pregnancy; Sudan

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER; CHLOROQUINE; QUININE;

ABORTION; ABSCESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BABY; CHILD DEATH; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GESTATION PERIOD; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFANT; INJECTION SITE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NAUSEA; NEWBORN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STILLBIRTH; SUDAN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TREATMENT FAILURE; VOMITING;

ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SESQUITERPENES; SUDAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CINCHONA PUBESCENS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 3342961789     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2003.11.008     Document Type: Article

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