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Knowledge among Drug Dispensers and Antimalarial Drug Prescribing Practices in Public Health Facilities in Dar es Salaam. [PDF]

, 2013
Irrational prescribing and dispensing of antimalarials has been identified as a contributing factor in the emergence of malaria parasites resistant to existing antimalarial drugs.
Kamuhabwa, Appolinary Ar, Silumbe, Richard   +1 more
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Efficacy of pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine in young children with uncomplicated falciparum malaria in rural Burkina Faso

Malaria Journal, 2004
The efficacy of pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine in the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in young children of a malaria holoendemic area in rural Burkina Faso is reported.
Traore Corneille, Müller Olaf, Kouyate Bocar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Saleability of Anti-malarials in Private Drug Shops in Muheza, Tanzania: A Baseline study in an era of assumed Artemisinin Ccombination Therapy (ACT). [PDF]

, 2011
Artemether-lumefantrine (ALu) replaced sulphadoxine-pymimethamine (SP) as the official first-line anti-malarial in Tanzania in November 2006. So far, artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) is contra-indicated during pregnancy by the national malaria ...
AM Rønn, B Wasunna, C Goodman, C Goodman, DS Tarimo, DS Tarimo, FM Ringsted, Frank M Ringsted, Ib C Bygbjerg, Isolide S Massawe, J Eriksen, M Alifrangis, M Alifrangis, Martha M Lemnge, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare URoT, MM Lemnge, MS Alilio, S Alba, S Alba, SE Nsimba, SE Nsimba, SE Nsimba, United Republic of Tanzania, VR Kamat, WE Harrington, World Health Organization, Z Premji   +26 more
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Intermittent Preventive Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy: Assessment of the Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine Three-Dose Policy on Birth Outcomes in Rural Northern Ghana

Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2019
Background Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) decreases placental parasitaemia and improves birth outcomes.
F. Anto, Ibrahim Haruna Agongo, V. Asoala, Elizabeth Awini, A. Oduro   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Effects of point mutations in Plasmodium falciparum dihydrofolate reductase and dihydropterate synthase genes on clinical outcomes and in vitro susceptibility to sulfadoxine and pyrimethamine. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2009
Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine was a common first line drug therapy to treat uncomplicated falciparum malaria, but increasing therapeutic failures associated with the development of significant levels of resistance worldwide has prompted change to alternative
David J Bacon, Doug Tang, Carola Salas, Norma Roncal, Carmen Lucas, Lucia Gerena, Lorena Tapia, A Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas, Coralith Garcia, Lelv Solari, Dennis Kyle, Alan J Magill   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Effect of Artemisinin-Based Drugs vs Non-artemisinin-based Drugs on Gametophyte Carrying in the Body After the Treatment of Uncomplicated Falciparum Malaria: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
The WHO recommends Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACTs) as the first-line treatment for malaria. This meta-analysis aims to analyze the effects of artemisinin and its derivatives as well as non-artemisinin drugs on the gametophytes in the host ...
Yuanyuan Zou, Nadia Julie, Shiyuan Guo, Yexiao Tang, Hongying Zhang, Zhiyong Xu, Wanting Wu, Yueming Yuan, Zhibin Wu, Wenfeng Guo, Changqing Li, Xinan Huang, Qin Xu, Changsheng Deng, Jianping Song, Qi Wang, Qi Wang   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Comparative Study of Advanced Oxidation Processes for the Removal of the Antibiotic Sulfadoxine from Water—Transformation Products and Toxicity

Applied Sciences
Sulfonamides, including sulfadoxine (SDX), are widely used antibiotics, particularly for malaria treatment. However, their extensive use has led to environmental pollution, microbial resistance, and public health risks. Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs)
Panagiotis A. Bizirtsakis, Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou, Vasilis C. Sarasidis, Panagiota Petsi, Alexandra Moschona, Konstantinos V. Plakas, Dimitra A. Lambropoulou   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gametocytaemia in senegalese children with uncomplicated Falciparum malaria treated with chloroquine, amodiaquine or sulfadoxine + pyrimethamine

Parasite, 2001
Plasmodium falciparum gametocytaemia was studied in 266 Senegalese children (median 4 years, range 0.5-16) with uncomplicated malaria treated with chloroquine (CQ), amodiaquine (AQ) or sulfadoxine+pyrimethamine (SP).
Sokhina C.S, Trape J.-F, Robert V.
doaj   +1 more source

Availability and Utilization of Malaria Prevention Strategies in Pregnancy in Eastern India [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND. Malaria in pregnancy in India, as elsewhere, is responsible for maternal anemia and adverse pregnancy outcomes such as low birth weight and preterm birth.
Banerjee, Camellia, Brooks, Mohamad I., Dash, Aditya P., Desai, Meghna, Hamer, Davidson H., Hashmi, Ahmar H., Hussain, Mobassir, MacLeod, William B., Sabin, Lora, Singh, Mrigendra P., Singh, Neeru, Tuchman, Jordan, Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam, Wylie, Blair J, Yeboah-Antwi, Kojo   +14 more
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Drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum from the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. [PDF]

, 2004
OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy of antimalarial treatment and molecular markers of Plasmodium falciparum resistance in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. METHODS: A total of 203 patients infected with P.
Anderson, T C, Brockman, A, Chakma, S, Nair, S, Talukder, L, van den Broek, I, van der Wardt, S   +6 more
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