Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria delivered to primary schoolchildren provided effective individual protection in Jinja, Uganda: secondary outcomes of a cluster-randomized trial (START-IPT)

BACKGROUND: Intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) of malaria is recommended as policy for certain high-risk populations, but not currently for schoolchildren. A cluster-randomized trial was conducted to evaluate the effect of IPT with dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine (DP) on primary schoolchildren i...

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Autores principales: Rehman, Andrea M., Maiteki-Sebuguzi, Catherine, Gonahasa, Samuel, Okiring, Jaffer, Kigozi, Simon P., Chandler, Clare I. R., Drakeley, Chris, Dorsey, Grant, Kamya, Moses R., Staedke, Sarah G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6751800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31533845
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-2954-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6751800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31533845
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-2954-0

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