Efficacy of amodiaquine, sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine and their combination for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in children in Cameroon at the time of policy change to artemisinin-based combination therapy

BACKGROUND: The efficacy of amodiaquine (AQ), sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) and the combination of SP+AQ in the treatment of Cameroonian children with clinical malaria was investigated. The prevalence of molecular markers for resistance to these drugs was studied to set the baseline for surveillan...

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Autores principales: Mbacham, Wilfred F, Evehe, Marie-Solange B, Netongo, Palmer M, Ateh, Isabel A, Mimche, Patrice N, Ajua, Anthony, Nji, Akindeh M, Irenee, Domkam, Echouffo-Tcheugui, Justin B, Tawe, Bantar, Hallett, Rachel, Roper, Cally, Targett, Geoffrey, Greenwood, Brian
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20105282
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-34

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20105282
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-34

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