Frequency and correlates of malaria over-treatment in areas of differing malaria transmission: A cross-sectional study in rural Western Kenya

Malaria Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Onchiri, Frankline M ^a,b   Pavlinac, Patricia B ^a   Singa, Benson O ^b   Naulikha, Jacqueline M ^b,c   Odundo, Elizabeth A ^e   Farquhar, Carey ^a   Richardson, Barbra A ^a,d   John Stewart, Grace ^a,c   Walson, Judd L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^e U S ARMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Laboratory testing; Malaria; Over treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ARTEMISININ; QUININE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD SMEAR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MICROSCOPY; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RAPID TEST; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; ADOLESCENT; DRUG EFFECTS; INFANT; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; MALARIA; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84924976264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-015-0613-7     Document Type: Article

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