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Adding artesunate to sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine greatly improves the treatment efficacy in children with uncomplicated falciparum malaria on the coast of Benin, West Africa

BACKGROUND: Benin has recently shifted its national antimalarial drug policy from monotherapies to combinations containing artemisinin derivatives. When this decision was taken, the available information on alternatives to chloroquine and sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine, the first- and second-line treatm...

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Autores principales: Nahum, Alain, Erhart, Annette, Gazard, Dorothée, Agbowai, Carine, Van Overmeir, Chantal, van Loen, Harry, Menten, Joris, Akogbeto, Martin, Coosemans, Marc, Massougbodji, Achille, D'Alessandro, Umberto
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2246142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18154655
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-6-170