Modelling the benefits of long-acting or transmission-blocking drugs for reducing Plasmodium falciparum transmission by case management or by mass treatment

Malaria Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Bretscher, Michael T ^a,c   Griffin, Jamie T ^b   Ghani, Azra C ^a   Okell, Lucy C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anti malarial; Artemisinin combination therapies; Mass drug administration; Mathematical modelling; Primaquine; Prophylaxis; Transmission; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; LONG ACTING DRUG; MEFLOQUINE; PIPERAQUINE; PRIMAQUINE; PYRIMETHAMINE PLUS SULFADOXINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; CASE MANAGEMENT; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; TREATMENT DURATION; COMBINATION DRUG THERAPY; DRUG EFFECT; MASS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PARASITOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION; UTILIZATION;

ANTIMALARIALS; CASE MANAGEMENT; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MASS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 85027532283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-017-1988-4     Document Type: Article

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