Antipyretic measures for treating fever in malaria

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2019, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Meremikwu, Martin M ^a   Odigwe, Chibuzo C ^a   Akudo Nwagbara, Bridget ^a   Udoh, Ekong E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; CHILD; CRYOTHERAPY; FEVER; HUMAN; MALARIA; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIMALARIALS; ANTIPYRETICS; CHILD; CRYOTHERAPY; FEVER; HUMANS; MALARIA; PARASITEMIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84873047991     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD002151.pub2     Document Type: Article

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