Activities of artemether-lumefantrine and amodiaquine-sulfalene- pyrimethamine against sexual-stage parasites in falciparum malaria in children

Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 201-208

  Sowunmi, Akintunde ^a,b   Balogun, Tunde ^a   Gbotosho, Grace O ^a   Happi, Christian T ^a   Adedeji, Ahmed A ^a   Bolaji, Olayinka M ^a   Fehintola, Fatai A ^a   Folarin, Onikepe A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Amodiaquine sulfalene pyrimethamine; Artemether lumefantrine; Gametocyte sex ratio; Malaria

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; METAKELFIN; PARACETAMOL;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG POTENCY; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GAMETOCYTE; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; NIGERIA; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

AMODIAQUINE; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ETHANOLAMINES; FEMALE; FLUORENES; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFALENE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 46449110812     PISSN: 00093157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000140463     Document Type: Article

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