Phase I/II evaluation of the prophylactic antimalarial activity of pafuramidine in healthy volunteers challenged with Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 528-535

  Nyunt, Myaing M ^a   Hendrix, Craig W ^b   Bakshi, Rahul P ^b   Kumar, Nirbhay ^a   Shapiro, Theresa A ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,5 BIS(4 AMIDINOPHENYL)FURAN; PAFURAMIDINE; PARACETAMOL; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; BENZAMIDINE DERIVATIVE; FURAMIDINE;

ADULT; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNITY; LIVER TOXICITY; MALARIA; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPOROZOITE; ANIMAL; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFECT; ERYTHROCYTE; HALF LIFE TIME; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANTIMALARIALS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BENZAMIDINES; COHORT STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65349162100     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.80.528     Document Type: Article

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