No rebound of morbidity following intermittent preventive sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine treatment of malaria in infants in gabon

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 200, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1658-1661

  Grobusch, Martin P ^a,b,c   Gabor, Julian J ^a,b   Aponte, John J ^d,e   Schwarz, Norbert G ^a,b   Poetschke, Marc ^a,b   Doernemann, Jenny ^a,b   Schuster, Katharina ^a,b   Koester, Kai B ^a,b   Profanter, Katharina ^a,b   Borchert, Lea B ^a,b   Kurth, Florian ^a,b   Pongratz, Peter ^a,b   Issifou, Saadou ^a   Lell, Bertrand ^a,b   Kremsner, Peter G ^a,b  

^a ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Gabon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^e Ministério de Saúde   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FANSIDAR;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; GABON; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK REDUCTION;

ANEMIA; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; GABON; HUMANS; INFANT; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE;

EID: 72849132837     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/647990     Document Type: Article

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