Artemisinin-based combination therapy does not measurably reduce human infectiousness to vectors in a setting of intense malaria transmission

BACKGROUND: Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) for treating malaria has activity against immature gametocytes. In theory, this property may complement the effect of terminating otherwise lengthy malaria infections and reducing the parasite reservoir in the human population that can infect v...

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Autores principales: Huho, Bernadette J, Killeen, Gerard F, Ferguson, Heather M, Tami, Adriana, Lengeler, Christian, Charlwood, J Derek, Kihonda, Aniset, Kihonda, Japhet, Kachur, S Patrick, Smith, Thomas A, Abdulla, Salim MK
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3483232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22513162
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-118

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3483232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22513162
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-118

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