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Availability of Antimalarial Drugs and Evaluation of the Attitude and Practices for the Treatment of Uncomplicated Malaria in Bangui, Central African Republic

Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2010
National malaria management policy is based upon the availability of effective and affordable antimalarial drugs. This study was undertaken to evaluate the quality of the treatment of uncomplicated malaria cases in Bangui, an area with multidrug ...
Alexandre Manirakiza, Siméon Pierre Njuimo, Alain Le Faou, Denis Malvy, Pascal Millet   +4 more
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Association of ABO blood group with severe falciparum malaria in adults: case control study and meta-analysis

Malaria Journal, 2011
Background Erythrocyte-associated antigenic polymorphisms or their absence have perhaps evolved in the human population to protect against malarial infection. Studies in various populations consistently demonstrate that blood group 'O' confers resistance
Tripathy Rina, Sahu Aditya N, Panda Santosh K, Panda Aditya K, Ravindran Balachandran, Das Bidyut K   +5 more
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Tolerability of amodiaquine and sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine, alone or in combination for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Rwandan adults.

, 2006
OBJECTIVE: To assess the tolerability and efficacy of amodiaquine (AQ)+sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), the first-line malaria treatment in Rwanda. METHOD: Randomized, double-blind trial in 2003 in Kigali town.
Karema, Corine, D'Alessandro, U., Fanello, C. I., van Doren, W., Rwagacondo, C. E., van Doren, W, Karema, C., Fanello, Caterina I, D'Alessandro, Umberto, Fanello, CI, van Doren, Walli, D'Alessandro, U, Karema, C, Rwagacondo, CE, Rwagacondo, Claude E   +14 more
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Malaria vaccines and their potential role in the elimination of malaria. [PDF]

, 2008
Research on malaria vaccines is currently directed primarily towards the development of vaccines that prevent clinical malaria. Malaria elimination, now being considered seriously in some epidemiological situations, requires a different vaccine strategy,
Greenwood, Brian M, Geoffrey A Targett, Brian M Greenwood, Greenwood Brian M, Targett Geoffrey A, Targett, Geoffrey A   +5 more
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The Hidden Costs of Coffee Production in the Eastern African Value Chains

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is increasing recognition that significant hidden costs associated with agrifood systems are not reflected in market prices. Coffee is among the three most traded agricultural commodities in the world and supports the livelihoods of more than 30 million smallholder households.
Annet Adong, Lukas Kornher, Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu, Aslihan Arslan   +3 more
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Analysis of the clinical profile in patients with Plasmodium falciparum malaria and its association with parasite density

Journal of Global Infectious Diseases, 2017
Background: Malaria remains a major health hazard in the modern world, particularly in developing countries. In Plasmodium falciparum malaria, there is a direct correlation between asexual erythrocytic stage parasite density and disease severity ...
Praveen Mangal, Shilpa Mittal, Kamal Kachhawa, Divya Agrawal, Bhabagrahi Rath, Sanjay Kumar   +5 more
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Reduction of malaria transmission to Anopheles mosquitoes with a six-dose regimen of co-artemether. [PDF]

, 2005
BACKGROUND: Resistance of malaria parasites to chloroquine (CQ) and sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) is increasing in prevalence in Africa. Combination therapy can both improve treatment and provide important public health benefits if it curbs the spread ...
Neal Alexander (18417), Colin J Sutherland (18042), Christopher J Drakeley (58257), Rosalind Coleman (18415), Targett Geoffrey A. T, Sutherland Colin J, Gijs Walraven (18413), Jawara, Musa, Coleman, Rosalind, Sam Dunyo, Musa Jawara (18412), Alexander Neal, Geoffrey A T Targett, Sutherland, Colin J, Ord Rosalynn, Musa Jawara, Coleman Rosalind, Pinder Margaret, Jawara Musa, Ord, Rosalynn, Walraven, Gijs, Targett, Geoffrey AT, Rosalynn Ord (18410), Geoffrey A. T Targett (18418), Neal Alexander, Colin J Sutherland, Sam Dunyo (58256), Rosalind Coleman, Margaret Pinder (1712), Gijs Walraven, Walraven Gijs, Drakeley, Christopher J, Alexander, Neal, Margaret Pinder, Dunyo Sam, Dunyo, Sam, Rosalynn Ord, Christopher J Drakeley, Drakeley Christopher J, Pinder, Margaret   +39 more
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Illegal Gold Mining in the Brazilian Amazon: Environmental Degradation in Yanomami Indigenous Lands, and Regulatory Failures

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Illegal gold mining has emerged as a major sustainability threat in the Amazon, eroding Indigenous rights, forest integrity, and climate mitigation efforts. This study examines how international market incentives relate to the expansion of illegal mining and associated deforestation within the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (YIT) from 2008 to ...
Shirléia Lago Santos, Ana Claudia de Araujo Moxotó, Jurandir Moura Dutra   +2 more
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Progression from uncomplicated to severe malaria among children in settings receiving different combinations of malaria control interventions in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Tropical Medicine and Health
Background There is a high variability in the pattern of deployment of combinations of malaria vectors and parasite control interventions across sub-Saharan Africa. Effects of such deployment on disease progression from uncomplicated to severe malaria (a
Erick Jacob Okek, Jeshua Jehopio, Obondo James Sande, Benson Musinguzi, Silvia Awor, Juliet Asio, Doare Kirsty Le, Julius Lutwama, Annet Kinengyere Alison, Felix Bongomin, Moses Ocan, Jonathan Kayondo   +11 more
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How weather got its words: a history of meteorological English – Part 2: the scientific age and beyond

Weather, EarlyView.
The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the origins of the words we use. In this paper, we will shed light on these origins, including the Pontic–Caspian steppe, the British Empire and, of course, a TV show.
Kieran M. R. Hunt
wiley   +1 more source