Adding artesunate to sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine greatly improves the treatment efficacy in children with uncomplicated falciparum malaria on the coast of Benin, West Africa

A Nahum; A Erhart; D Gazard; C Agbowai; C Van Overmeir; H van Loen; J Menten; M Okogbeto; M Coosemans; A Massougbodji; U D'Alessandro

doi:10.1186/1475-2875-6-170

Adding artesunate to sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine greatly improves the treatment efficacy in children with uncomplicated falciparum malaria on the coast of Benin, West Africa

A Nahum
, A Erhart
, D Gazard
, C Agbowai
, C Van Overmeir
, H van Loen
, J Menten
, M Okogbeto
, M Coosemans
, A Massougbodji
, U D'Alessandro

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Original language	English
Journal	Malaria Journal
Volume	6
Issue number	170
Pages (from-to)	1-8
ISSN	1475-2875
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-6-170
Publication status	Published - 2007

Keywords

B780-tropical-medicine
Protozoal diseases
Malaria
Plasmodium falciparum
Drug therapy
First-line drugs
Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine
Artesunate
Artemisinin combination therapies (ACT)
Children
Efficacy
Pregnancy
Chemoprophylaxis
Intermittent treatment
Benin
Africa-West

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Nahum, A., Erhart, A., Gazard, D., Agbowai, C., Van Overmeir, C., van Loen, H., Menten, J., Okogbeto, M., Coosemans, M., Massougbodji, A., & D'Alessandro, U. (2007). Adding artesunate to sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine greatly improves the treatment efficacy in children with uncomplicated falciparum malaria on the coast of Benin, West Africa. Malaria Journal, 6(170), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-6-170

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