Molecular epidemiology of malaria in Cameroon. XXI. Baseline therapeutic efficacy of chloroquine, amodiaquine, and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine monotherapies in children before national drug policy change

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 388-395

  Basco, Leonardo K ^a   Ngane, Vincent Foumane ^a   Ndounga, Mathieu ^a   Same Ekobo, Albert ^b   Youmba, Jean Christian ^c   Abodo, Raphael Therese Okalla ^c   Soula, Georges ^a  

^a Organisation de Coordination pour la Lutte contre les Endemies en Afrique Centrale Cameroon   (Cameroon)

^b Fac Med B   (Cameroon)

^c Ministere de la Sante Publique   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ARTEMISININ; CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR; PARACETAMOL; QUININE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE; SULFADOXINE-PYRIMETHAMINE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TREATMENT FAILURE; VOMITING; CAMEROON; DRUG COMBINATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM;

ARTESUNATE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

AMODIAQUINE; ANTIMALARIALS; CAMEROON; CHILD; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE;

EID: 33750579807     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2006.75.388     Document Type: Article

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