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Chlorproguanil-dapsone for treatment of drug-resistant falciparum malaria in Tanzania.
Lancet (London, England) - 13 Oct 2001
Mutabingwa T, Nzila A, Mberu E, Nduati E, Winstanley P, Hills E, Watkins W
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BACKGROUND: Resistance to the affordable malaria treatments chloroquine and pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine is seriously impeding malaria control through treatment in east Africa. We did an open, alternate drug allocation study to assess the efficacy of chlorproguanil-dapsone in the treatment of falciparum malaria clinically resistant to pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine. METHODS: Children younger than 5 years with non-severe...
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