Successful treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria with a six-dose regimen of artemether-lumefantrine versus quinine-doxycycline in the western Amazon region of Brazil

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 20-25

  Alecrim, Maria G ^b   Lacerda, Marcus V ^a,b   Mourãdieo, Maria P ^b   Alecrim, Wilson D ^b   Padilha, Alexandre ^c   Cardoso, Bernardo S ^c   Boulos, Marcos ^c  

^a Institute of Tropical Medicine of Amazonas   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NILTON LINS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; DOXYCYCLINE; QUININE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; BENFLUMETOL; ETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BACKACHE; BRAZIL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECG ABNORMALITY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEART RATE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; INSOMNIA; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; NAUSEA; OPEN STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRURITUS; QT PROLONGATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIDE EFFECT; SWEATING; TASTE DISORDER; TREATMENT DURATION; UPPER ABDOMINAL PAIN; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG COMBINATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MIDDLE AGED;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; BRAZIL; DOXYCYCLINE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ETHANOLAMINES; FEMALE; FLUORENES; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; QUININE;

EID: 33646012962     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2006.74.20     Document Type: Article

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