APOPTOTIC AND VASCULAR CHANGES IN TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS IN FECTED MICE AFTER PARENTERAL ARTEMETHER TREATMENT [PDF]
Trichinosis is a parasitic disease, caused by a nematode worm of the genus Trichinella. Infection is caused by ingestion of undercooked contaminated meat with infective parasitic larvae.
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Artemether resistance in vitro is linked to mutations in PfATP6 that also interact with mutations in PfMDR1 in travellers returning with Plasmodium falciparum infections. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Monitoring resistance phenotypes for Plasmodium falciparum, using in vitro growth assays, and relating findings to parasite genotype has proved particularly challenging for the study of resistance to artemisinins.
Rosalba Lepore +27 more
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Population pharmacokinetics of artemether-lumefantrine plus amodiaquine in patients with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria. [PDF]
Aims Resistance to the artemisinins and the artemisinin‐based combination therapy (ACT) partner drugs has developed in Southeast Asia, and artemisinin resistance has also emerged in eastern Africa. Triple ACTs (triple artemisinin‐based combination therapies, TACT), consisting of two partner drugs with different mechanisms of action and similar ...
Ding J +24 more
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Exploration of in Vivo Efficacy of Artemether-Lumefantrine Against Uncomplicated Plasmodium Falciparum Malaria in Under Fives in Tabora Region, Tanzania. [PDF]
Tanzania adopted artemether-lumefantrine (AL) as first-line drug for uncomplicated malaria in 2006. Recently, there was an anecdotal report on high malaria recurrence rate following AL treatment in in the (urban and peri-urban), western part of Tanzania.
Minzi, O.M.S. +17 more
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Artemether–lumefantrine is the most widely used artemisinin-based combination therapy for malaria. The present work aims to develop and validate a simple, accurate, precise and rapid ratio first order derivative spectrophotometric method for the ...
Jenee Christian +4 more
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Artemether-lumefantrine treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria : a systematic review and meta-analysis of day 7 lumefantrine concentrations and therapeutic response using individual patient data [PDF]
Achieving adequate antimalarial drug exposure is essential for curing malaria. Day 7 blood or plasma lumefantrine concentrations provide a simple measure of drug exposure that correlates well with artemether-lumefantrine efficacy.
Mårtensson, A +50 more
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Measurement of adherence, drug concentrations and the effectiveness of artemether-lumefantrine, chlorproguanil-dapsone or sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine in the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in Malawi [PDF]
Sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) is the only single dose therapy for uncomplicated malaria, but there is widespread resistance. At the time of this study, artemether-lumefantrine (AL) and chlorproguanil-dapsone (CPD), both multi-dose regimes, were ...
Hughes Dyfrig A +37 more
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Artemisinin combination therapies for treatment of uncomplicated malaria in Uganda. [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: To compare the efficacy and safety of artemisinin combination therapies for the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in Uganda. DESIGN: Randomized single-blind controlled trial.
Staedke Sarah G +21 more
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Background Praziquantel has been used as first-line drug for chemotherapy of schistosomiasis since 1984. Besides praziquantel, artemether and artesunate have also been used for the control of this infectious disease since late 1990s.
Zhao Qin-Ping +4 more
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Supervised versus unsupervised antimalarial treatment with six-dose artemether-lumefantrine: pharmacokinetic and dosage-related findings from a clinical trial in Uganda. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: A six-dose antimalarial regimen of artemether-lumefantrine (A/L) may soon become one of the most widely used drug combination in Africa, despite possible constraints with adherence and poor absorption due to inadequate nutrition, and a lack ...
Bajunirwe, Francis +56 more
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