Impact of artemisinin-based combination therapy and insecticide-treated nets on malaria burden in Zanzibar

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1784-1790

  Bhattarai, Achuyt ^a   Ali, Abdullah S ^b   Kachur, S Patrick ^c,d   Mårtensson, Andreas ^a,e   Abbas, Ali K ^b   Khatib, Rashid ^d   Al mafazy, Abdul Wahiyd ^b   Ramsan, Mahdi ^f   Rotllant, Guida ^a   Gerstenmaier, Jan F ^g   Molteni, Fabrizio ^h   Abdulla, Salim ^d   Montgomery, Scott M ^i,j   Kaneko, Akira ^a   Björkman, Anders ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Zanzibar Malaria Control Programme   (Tanzania)

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

^d IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^e Kullbergska Hospital   (Sweden)

^f RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^g SOUTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h Italian Co operation   (Tanzania)

ⁱ KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^j ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTEMISIN; ARTESUNATE; CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR; INSECTICIDE; QUININE; ARTEMISININ; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BED NET; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MORBIDITY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PARAMETER; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; TANZANIA; ANIMAL; BED; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG COMBINATION; INFANT; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MOSQUITO; NEWBORN; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ARTEMISININS; BEDDING AND LINENS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; TANZANIA;

EID: 36849052939     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040309     Document Type: Article

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