Treatment failure of pyrimethamine‐sulphadoxine and induction of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytaemia in children in western Kenya
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- 1 May 2003
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Wiley in Tropical Medicine & International Health
- Vol. 8 (5) , 427-430
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.01047.x
Abstract
Sub‐Saharan Africa faces increasing levels of resistance of Plasmodium falciparum parasites to the first‐line drug pyrimethamine‐sulphadoxine (SP). Successful treatment with SP is reported to induce ...Keywords
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