Two-year evaluation of Intermittent preventive treatment for children (IPTc) combined with timely home treatment for malaria control in Ghana

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ahorlu, Collins K ^a   Koram, Kwadwo A ^a   Seake Kwawu, Atsu ^b   Weiss, Mitchell G ^c  

^a University of Ghana   (Ghana)

^b Box KW198 ^*  (Ghana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ARTESUNATE; AMODIAQUINE, ARTESUNATE DRUG COMBINATION; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHILD; CHILL; CONVULSION; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GHANA; HEADACHE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT PREVENTIVE TREATMENT FOR CHILDREN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RASH; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VOMITING; ANIMAL; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; DRUG COMBINATION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM;

AMODIAQUINE; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CHEMOPREVENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE;

EID: 79955835283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-127     Document Type: Article

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