Effectiveness and safety of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria using either dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine or artesunate-amodiaquine in reducing malaria related morbidities and improving cognitive ability in school-aged children in Tanzania: A study protocol for a controlled randomised trial

BACKGROUND: In high transmission settings, up to 70% of school-aged children harbour malaria parasites without showing any clinical symptoms. Thus, epidemiologically, school aged children act as a substantial reservoir for malaria transmission. Asymptomatic Plasmodium infections induce inflammation...

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Autores principales: Makenga, Geofrey, Baraka, Vito, Francis, Filbert, Nakato, Swabra, Gesase, Samwel, Mtove, George, Madebe, Rashid, Kyaruzi, Edna, Minja, Daniel T.R., Lusingu, John P.A., Van geertruyden, Jean-Pierre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7201189/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32382685
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2020.100546

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