Kajungu DK, Erhart A, Talisuna AO, Bassat Q, Karema C, et al.
2014-05-01 • PLOS One
2014-05-01 • PLOS One
Pharmacovigilance programmes monitor and help ensuring the safe use of medicines which is critical to the success of public health programmes. The commonest method used for discovering p...
Grandesso F, Bachy C, Donam I, Ntambi J, Habimana J, et al.
2006-05-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2006-05-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
We report two 28-day in-vivo antimalarial efficacy studies carried out in the urban centres of Bongor and Koumra, southern Chad. We assess chloroquine (CQ), sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP...
Bassat Q, Mulenga M, Tinto H, Piola P, Borrmann S, et al.
2009-11-17 • PLOS One
2009-11-17 • PLOS One
BACKGROUND: Artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) are currently the preferred option for treating uncomplicated malaria. Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DHA-PQP) is a promising fixed-...
Zwang J, Ashley EA, Karema C, D'Alessandro U, Smithuis FM, et al.
2009-07-29 • PLOS One
2009-07-29 • PLOS One
BACKGROUND: The fixed dose antimalarial combination of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) is a promising new artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT). We present an individual patien...
Lee SJ, Stepniewska K, Anstey NM, Ashley EA, Barnes KI, et al.
2008-08-01 • Malaria Journal
2008-08-01 • Malaria Journal
BACKGROUND: Malaria is a very important cause of anaemia in tropical countries. Anaemia is assessed either by measurement of the haematocrit or the haemoglobin concentration. For compari...
Mens PF, Van Overmeir C, Bonnet MMB, Dujardin JC, D'Alessandro U
2008-03-17 • Malaria Journal
2008-03-17 • Malaria Journal
BACKGROUND: Sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine has been abandoned as first- or second-line treatment by most African malaria endemic countries in favour of artemisinin-based combination treatmen...
Stepniewska K, Ashley EA, Lee SJ, Anstey NM, Barnes KI, et al.
2010-02-15 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
2010-02-15 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
Parasite clearance data from 18,699 patients with falciparum malaria treated with an artemisinin derivative in areas of low (n=14,539), moderate (n=2077), and high (n=2083) levels of mal...
Taylor WRJ, Naw HK, Maitland K, Williams TN, Kapulu M, et al.
2018-01-18 • BMC Medicine
2018-01-18 • BMC Medicine
In 2012, the World Health Organization recommended blocking the transmission of Plasmodium falciparum with single low-dose primaquine (SLDPQ, target dose 0.25 mg base/kg body weight), wi...
Hossain MS, Commons RJ, Douglas NM, Thriemer KL, Alemayehu BH, et al.
2020-11-19 • PLOS Medicine
2020-11-19 • PLOS Medicine
Background: There is a high risk of Plasmodium vivax parasitaemia following treatment of falciparum malaria. Our study aimed to quantify this risk and the associated determinants using a...
Guthmann JP, Ampuero J, Fortes F, Van Overmeir C, Gaboulaud V, et al.
2005-07-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2005-07-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
We studied three antimalarial treatments in Caala and Kuito, Angola, in 2002 and 2003. We tested chloroquine (CQ), amodiaquine (AQ) and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) in Caala, and AQ, S...