Randomized, multicentre assessment of the efficacy and safety of ASAQ a fixed-dose artesunate-amodiaquine combination therapy in the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria

Malaria Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Ndiaye, Jean Louis ^a   Randrianarivelojosia, Milijaona ^b   Sagara, Issaka ^c   Brasseur, Philippe ^d   Ndiaye, Ibrahima ^a   Faye, Babacar ^a   Randrianasolo, Laurence ^b   Ratsimbasoa, Arsène ^b   Forlemu, Doris ^e   Moor, Vicky Ama ^e   Traore, Aminata ^c   Dicko, Yahia ^c   Dara, Niawanlou ^c   Lameyre, Valérie ^f   Diallo, Mouctar ^c   Djimde, Abdoulaye ^c   Same Ekobo, Albert ^e   Gaye, Oumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MADAGASCAR   (Madagascar)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAMAKO   (Mali)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^e Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire de Yaounde   (Cameroon)

^f SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE PLUS ARTESUNATE; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; AMODIAQUINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; ASAQ COMPOUND;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BRONCHITIS; CAMEROON; CHILD; CHILL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMA; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INTESTINE INFECTION; JAUNDICE; LUNG INFECTION; MADAGASCAR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MALI; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUTROPENIA; OPEN STUDY; OPTIMAL DRUG DOSE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PARALLEL DESIGN; PARASITOSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRURITUS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; SENEGAL; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; SPLENOMEGALY; SWEATING; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERTIGO; VOMITING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ANIMAL; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMODIAQUINE; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650770309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-8-125     Document Type: Article

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