Article
[Surveillance of falciparum malaria susceptibility to antimalarial drugs and policy change in the Comoros].
Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique (1990) - 1 Feb 2007
Silai R, Moussa M, Abdalli Mari M, Astafieva-Djaza M, Hafidhou M, Oumadi A, Randrianarivelojosia M, Said Ankili A, Said Ahmed B, Gayibor A H, Ariey F, Ringwald P
Abstract excerpt
Between May and June 2001, efficacy of chloroquine was assessed in 5 sentinel sites in the 3 Comoro islands. Among the 183 children, age range between 6 and 59 months, followed up for 14 days, clinical failure rates ranged between 31.2 and 73.1% and the total failure rate (clinical and parasitological) between 50 and 88.5%. Failures were mainly early treatment failures. The Ministry of health, during a consensus...
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