Efficacy and safety of artemether-lumefantrine in the treatment of acute, uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria: A pooled analysis

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 793-804

  Makanga, Michael ^a,c   Bassat, Quique ^b,c   Falade, Catherine O ^c,d   Premji, Zulfiqarali G ^c,e   Krudsood, Srivicha ^c,f   Hunt, Philip ^c,g   Walter, Verena ^c,h   Beck, Hans Peter ^c,i   Marrast, Anne Claire ^c,h   Cousin, Marc ^c,h   Rosenthal, Philip J ^c,j  

^a European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership   (Netherlands)

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

^c Ministérioda Saúde   (Mozambique)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^e MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^f MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^g NOVARTIS HORSHAM RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^h NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; METOCLOPRAMIDE; PARACETAMOL; QUININE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CERUMEN IMPACTION; CHILD; CHILL; COUGHING; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG FEVER; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EAR DISEASE; EAR PRURITUS; ECZEMA; FACE EDEMA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; GAMETOCYTE; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; OTALGIA; OTORRHEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QT PROLONGATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; SUDDEN DEATH; SYNCOPE; TREATMENT DURATION; URTICARIA; VERTIGO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CHILD; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ETHANOLAMINES; FLUORENES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; YOUNG ADULT;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 81155131418     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.11-0069     Document Type: Article

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