Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency and Haemoglobin Drop after Sulphadoxine-Pyrimethamine Use for Intermittent Preventive Treatment of Malaria during Pregnancy in Ghana – A Cohort Study

BACKGROUND: Sulphadoxine-Pyrimethamine (SP) is still the only recommended antimalarial for use in intermittent preventive treatment of malaria during pregnancy (IPTp) in some malaria endemic countries including Ghana. SP has the potential to cause acute haemolysis in G6PD deficient people resulting...

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Autores principales: Owusu, Ruth, Asante, Kwaku Poku, Mahama, Emmanuel, Awini, Elizabeth, Anyorigiya, Thomas, Dosoo, David, Amu, Alberta, Jakpa, Gabriel, Ofei, Emmanuel, Segbaya, Sylvester, Oduro, Abraham Rexford, Gyapong, Margaret, Hodgson, Abraham, Bart-Plange, Constance, Owusu-Agyei, Seth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4556530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26327623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136828

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4556530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26327623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136828

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