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Effect of seasonal malaria chemoprevention plus azithromycin on Plasmodium falciparum transmission: gametocyte infectivity and mosquito fitness

BACKGROUND: Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) consists of administration of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) + amodiaquine (AQ) at monthly intervals to children during the malaria transmission period. Whether the addition of azithromycin (AZ) to SMC could potentiate the benefit of the interventio...

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Autores principales: Yaméogo, Koudraogo Bienvenue, Yerbanga, Rakiswendé Serge, Ouattara, Seydou Bienvenu, Yao, Franck A., Lefèvre, Thierry, Zongo, Issaka, Nikièma, Frederic, Compaoré, Yves Daniel, Tinto, Halidou, Chandramohan, Daniel, Greenwood, Brian, Belem, Adrien M. G., Cohuet, Anna, Ouédraogo, Jean Bosco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8314489/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34315475
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03855-3