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Drug resistance maps to guide intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in African infants.
Parasitology - 1 Oct 2011
Naidoo Inbarani, Roper Cally
Abstract excerpt
Intermittent preventive treatment of infants (IPTi) with sulphadoxine pyrimethamine (SP) is recommended as an additional malaria control intervention in high transmission areas of sub-Saharan Africa, provided its protective efficacy is not compromised by SP resistance. A significant obstacle in implementing SP-IPTi, is in establishing the degree of resistance in an area. Since SP monotherapy is discontinued, no...
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