A trial of intermittent preventive treatment and home-based management of malaria in a rural area of the Gambia

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sesay, Sanie ^a   Milligan, Paul ^b   Touray, Ensa ^a   Sowe, Maimuna ^a   Webb, Emily L ^b   Greenwood, Brian M ^b   Bojang, Kalifa A ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; PLACEBO; PYRIMETHAMINE PLUS SULFADOXINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE; SULFADOXINE-PYRIMETHAMINE;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG SAFETY; GAMBIA; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL AREA; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG COMBINATION; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL POPULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMODIAQUINE; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; PLACEBOS; PYRIMETHAMINE; RURAL POPULATION; SULFADOXINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650961153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-2     Document Type: Article

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