Safety and efficacy of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine versus artemether-lumefantrine in the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Zambian children

BACKGROUND: Malaria in Zambia remains a public health and developmental challenge, affecting mostly children under five and pregnant women. In 2002, the first-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria was changed to artemether-lumefantrine (AL) that has proved to be highly efficacious against multidr...

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Autores principales: Nambozi, Michael, Van Geertruyden, Jean-Pierre, Hachizovu, Sebastian, Chaponda, Mike, Mukwamataba, Doreen, Mulenga, Modest, Ubben, David, D'Alessandro, Umberto
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3055852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21352609
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-50

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