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Intermittent screening and treatment with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for the prevention of malaria in pregnancy: implementation feasibility in a routine healthcare system setting in western Kenya

BACKGROUND: Intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) is recommended for preventing malaria in pregnancy in areas of moderate-to-high transmission in sub-Saharan Africa. However, due to increasing parasite resistance to SP, research on alternative stra...

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Autores principales: Hill, Jenny, Ouma, Peter, Oluoch, Seth, Bruce, Jane, Kariuki, Simon, Desai, Meghna, Webster, Jayne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7690090/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33238999
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-020-03505-0