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Piperaquine concentration and malaria treatment outcomes in Ugandan children treated for severe malaria with intravenous Artesunate or quinine plus Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine

BACKGROUND: Treatment for severe malaria must be prompt with effective parenteral antimalarial drugs for at least 24 h to achieve fast parasite clearance, and when the patient can tolerate oral therapy, treatment should be completed with effective artemisinin based combination therapy (ACT) for comp...

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Autores principales: Byakika-Kibwika, Pauline, Ssenyonga, Ronald, Lamorde, Mohammed, Blessborn, Daniel, Tarning, Joel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6889437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31795967
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4647-2