Efficacy of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in Tanzania after two years as first-line drug for uncomplicated malaria: assessment protocol and implication for treatment policy strategies

BACKGROUND: Systematic surveillance for resistant malaria shows high level of resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) across eastern and southern parts of Africa. This study assessed in vivo SP efficacy after two years of use as an interim first-line drug in Tanzania, a...

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Autores principales: Mugittu, Kefas, Abdulla, Salim, Falk, Nicole, Masanja, Honorati, Felger, Ingrid, Mshinda, Hassan, Beck, Hans-Peter, Genton, Blaise
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1315332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16297234
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-4-55

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