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Can changes in malaria transmission intensity explain prolonged protection and contribute to high protective efficacy of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants?

BACKGROUND: Intermittent preventive (or presumptive) treatment of infants (IPTi), the administration of a curative anti-malarial dose to infants whether or not they are known to be infected, is being considered as a new strategy for malaria control. Five of the six trials using sulphadoxine-pyrimeth...

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Autores principales: Gosling, Roly D, Ghani, Azra C, Deen, Jaqueline L, von Seidlein, Lorenz, Greenwood, Brian M, Chandramohan, Daniel
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2323384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18387180
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-7-54