Options for the delivery of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria to children: A community randomised trial

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Kweku, Margaret ^a,c   Webster, Jayne ^a   Adjuik, Martin ^b   Abudey, Samuel ^c   Greenwood, Brian ^a   Chandramohan, Daniel ^a  

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

^b NAVRONGO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^c GHANA HEALTH SERVICE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; FANSIDAR; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE; SULFADOXINE-PYRIMETHAMINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON COLD; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DIARRHEA; DROWSINESS; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESTLESSNESS; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; DRUG COMBINATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOME CARE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SEASON;

AMODIAQUINE; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; GHANA; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PYRIMETHAMINE; SEASONS; SULFADOXINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349705533     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007256     Document Type: Article

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