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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...
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 |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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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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