Therapeutic efficacies of artemisinin-based combination therapies in nigerian children with uncomplicated falciparum malaria during five years of adoption as first-line treatments

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 936-943

  Gbotosho, Grace O ^a   Sowunmi, Akintunde ^a   Happi, Christian T ^a   Okuboyejo, Titilope M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE PLUS ARTESUNATE; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; COARSUCAM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HALF LIFE; FEVER; GAMETOCYTE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AMODIAQUINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; FLUORENES; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; NIGERIA; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARTESUNATE;

EID: 79958753971     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.10-0722     Document Type: Article

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