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Do Health Workers' Preferences Influence their Practices? Assessment of Providers' Attitude and Personal use of new Treatment Recommendations for Management of Uncomplicated Malaria, Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2012
\ud \ud Due to growing antimalarial drug resistance, Tanzania changed malaria treatment policies twice within a decade. First in 2001 chloroquine (CQ) was replaced by sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) for management of uncomplicated malaria and by late 2006,
Lutambi Angelina M, Khatib, R. A., Rashid A Khatib, Masanja Irene M, Khatib Rashid A, Irene M Masanja, Masanja, Irene M, Lutambi, A. M., Angelina M Lutambi, Lutambi, Angelina M, Masanja, I. M., Khatib, Rashid A   +11 more
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Comparison of the therapeutic efficacy of chloroquine and sulphadoxine-pyremethamine in children and pregnant women.

, 2007
OBJECTIVE: To compare the parasitological failure rates of under-fives and pregnant women with parasitaemia treated with chloroquine (CQ) or sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP).
Ord, Rosalynn, Daniel Chandramohan, Jane Bruce, Chandramohan, Daniel, Randall, Anna, Tagbor, Harry, Harry Tagbor, Edmund Browne, Anna Randall, Browne, Edmund, Rosalynn Ord, Greenwood, Brian, Brian Greenwood, Bruce, Jane   +13 more
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Intensity of transmission and spread of gene mutations linked to chloroquine and sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance in falciparum malaria.

, 2003
The number of malaria parasite clones per infection-multiplicity of parasite clones-is affected by the transmission intensity, multiplicity increases with increasing transmission.
Hastings, Ian M, Langi, P., Talisuna, Ambrose O., Egwang, T.G., Mutabingwa, Theonest K., Speybroeck, Niko, Langi, P, Mutabingwa, T.K., Hastings, Ian, Talisuna, Ambrose O, Mutabingwa, Theonest K, Watkins, William W, Van Marck, E., Egwang, Thomas G, d' Alessandro, U., Egwang, TG, D'Alessandro, U., Egwang, T., Mutabingwa, T. K., Watkins, W.W., Langi, Peter, Mutabingwa, TK, Watkins, W. W., D'Alessandro, Umberto, Hastings, I. M., Hastings, IM, Speybroeck, N., Watkins, William W., Talisuna, A. O., Watkins, WW, Egwang, Thomas G., Van Marck, Eric, Talisuna, A.O., Van Marck, E, Talisuna, AO, Hastings, I.M.   +35 more
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Evaluation of malaria prevention strategies during pregnancy in Ndola, Zambia

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2010
Background: Malaria in pregnancy is associated with many negative outcomes for the woman,foetus and neonate. Intermittent preventive treatment during pregnancy (IPTp) using three doses of sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine (SP), insecticide-treated mosquito nets (
Mwamba Mulamba, Bob Mash
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Therapeutic efficacy of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for Plasmodium falciparum malaria.

South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde, 2005
To assess the therapeutic efficacy of sulfadoxinepyrimethamine (SP) after 5 years of use as first-line treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria, and thus guide the selection of artemisinin-based combination therapy in Mpumalanga, South Africa.An open-label, in vivo therapeutic efficacy study of patients with uncomplicated P.
Mabuza, Aaron, Govere, John, La Grange, Kobus, Mngomezulu, Nicros, Allen, Elizabeth, Zitha, Alpheus, Mbokazi, Frans, Durrheim, David, Barnes, Karen   +8 more
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Seasonal intermittent preventive treatment for the prevention of anaemia and malaria in Ghanaian children: a randomized, placebo controlled trial. [PDF]

, 2008
BACKGROUND: Malaria and anaemia are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in children in sub-Saharan Africa. We have investigated the effect of intermittent preventive treatment with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine or artesunate plus amodiaquine on ...
Kweku Margaret, Liu Dongmei, Adjuik, Martin, Daniel Chandramohan, Greenwood Brian, Margaret Kweku, Binka Fred, Fred Binka, Binka, Fred, Chandramohan, Daniel, Mahmood Seidu, Liu, Dongmei, Dongmei Liu, Seidu, Mahmood, Martin Adjuik, Greenwood, Brian, Brian Greenwood, Kweku, Margaret, Seidu Mahmood, Adjuik Martin, Chandramohan Daniel   +20 more
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Efficacy of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and mefloquine for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the Amazon basin of Peru

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2004
In vivo antimalarial drug efficacy studies of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria at an isolated site in the Amazon basin of Peru bordering Brazil and Colombia showed >50% RII/RIII resistance to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine but no evidence of ...
Alan J. Magill, Jorge Zegarra, Coralith Garcia, Wilmer Marquiño, Trenton K. Ruebush II   +4 more
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Prevalence of antimalarial drug resistance molecular markers in Makenene, central Cameroon

International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance
Background: Antimalarial drug resistance remains a significant challenge in the fight against malaria in Cameroon. Given the high prevalence of malaria in Makenene in central Cameroon and the limited knowledge of drug resistance profiles in the area, the
Nelly Armanda Kala-Chouakeu, Joel Djoufounna, Nicolas Benoit, Timoléon Tchuinkam, Océane Delandre, Lionel Almeras, Roland Bamou, Christophe Antonio-Nkondjio, Marylin Madamet, Bruno Pradines   +9 more
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Investigating the dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte carriage in expectant women under intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in Kilifi, study protocol [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

Open Research Europe
Introduction Malaria in pregnancy remains a public health problem. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) to all pregnant women in moderate to high malaria transmission ...
Isabella Oyier, Martin Rono, Mainga Hamaluba, Patience Kerubo Kiyuka, Nelson Ouma, Mark Muricho, Amek Nyaguara, Charles Muiruri   +7 more
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Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance in the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium chabaudi

, 2002
We have studied resistance to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (S/P) in the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium chabaudi. A stable S/P-resistant mutant, AS(50S/P), was selected by drug treatment of a clone, AS(PYR), already resistant to pyrimethamine.
Hayton, K, Ranford-Cartwright, LC, Karen Hayton, Walliker, D, K. Hayton, David Walliker, L. C. Ranford-Cartwright, D. Walliker, Lisa C. Ranford-Cartwright   +8 more
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