Residual antimalarial concentrations before treatment in patients with malaria from Cambodia: indication of drug pressure (Publications)
at reducing inappropriate drug use. Methods. Baseline samples from 125 patients with falciparum malaria recruited for 2 in vivo studies (in Preah Vihear and Pursat provinces) were analyzed for the presence [...] (25% and 35% of patients) and piperaquine (15% of patients); the first-line drug against vivax malaria, chloroquine (25% and 41% of patients); and the former first-line drug, quinine (5% and 34% patients)
Consistently high estimates for the proportion of human exposure to malaria vector populations occurring indoors in rural Africa (Publications)
eated nets (ITNs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) are highly effective tools for controlling malaria transmission in Africa because the most important vectors, from the Anopheles gambiae complex and
Cost-effectiveness of malaria intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) in Mozambique and the United Republic of Tanzania (Publications)
on the efficacy results of the intervention and on malaria incidence in the target population, an estimate was made of the number of clinical malaria episodes prevented. This number and an assumed cas [...] OBJECTIVE: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of malaria intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP). METHODS: In two previous IPTi trials in Ifakara (United [...] costs, was then assessed on the basis of these figures. FINDINGS: The cost per...
Effect of single nucleotide polymorphisms in cytochrome P450 isoenzyme and N-acetyltransferase-2 genes on the metabolism of artemisinin-based... (Publications)
first-line treatments with the current artemisinin derivatives and quinolines for uncomplicated malaria in specific populations. However, it cannot be ruled out that our results represent isolated findings