Intermittent preventive antimalarial treatment in infants

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 26-28

  Greenwood, Brian ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FANSIDAR; PLACEBO;

CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; GHANA; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; NOTE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIMALARIALS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; MALARIA; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE;

EID: 34250888040     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/518574     Document Type: Note

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