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Effectiveness of artemether-lumefantrine provided by community health workers in under-five children with uncomplicated malaria in rural Tanzania: an open label prospective study

BACKGROUND: Home-management of malaria (HMM) strategy improves early access of anti-malarial medicines to high-risk groups in remote areas of sub-Saharan Africa. However, limited data are available on the effectiveness of using artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) within the HMM strategy. The...

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Autores principales: Ngasala, Billy E, Malmberg, Maja, Carlsson, Anja M, Ferreira, Pedro E, Petzold, Max G, Blessborn, Daniel, Bergqvist, Yngve, Gil, José P, Premji, Zul, Mårtensson, Andreas
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3065443/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21410954
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-64