Randomized trial of piperaquine with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine or dihydroartemisinin for malaria intermittent preventive treatment in children

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Cisse, Badara ^a,b   Cairns, Matthew ^b   Faye, Ernest ^b   NDiaye, Ousmane ^c   Faye, Babacar ^a   Cames, Cecile ^c   Cheng, Yue ^d   NDiaye, Maguette ^b   Lô, Aminata Collé ^b   Simondon, Kirsten ^c   Trape, Jean Francois ^c   Faye, Oumar ^b,e   NDiaye, Jean Louis ^a   Gaye, Oumar ^a   Greenwood, Brian ^b   Milligan, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

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

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^d MEDICAL SCHOOL OF XI AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Ministere de la Sante   (Senegal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; DIHYDROARTEMISININ PLUS PIPERAQUINE; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; DIHYDROPTEROATE SYNTHASE; DUALKIN; DUOCOTEXIN; FANSIDAR; PIPERAQUINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; DIHYDROQUINGHAOSU; PYRIMETHAMINE; QUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; SULFADOXINE; SULFADOXINE-PYRIMETHAMINE;

ANTIMALARIAL DRUG RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FEVER; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITEMIA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENEGAL; VOMITING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DRUG COMBINATION; INCIDENCE; RURAL POPULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; PYRIMETHAMINE; QUINOLINES; RURAL POPULATION; SENEGAL; SULFADOXINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349656475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007164     Document Type: Article

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