Defining Plasmodium falciparum treatment in South West Asia: A randomized trial comparing artesunate or primaquine combined with chloroquine or SP

• Main Authors: Kate Kolaczinski, Toby Leslie, Iftikhar Ali, Naeem Durrani, Sue Lee, Marion Barends, Khalid Beshir, Rosalynn Ord, Rachel Hallett, Mark Rowland
• Other Authors: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/13504
• Institution: Mahidol University

Introduction: Antimalarial resistance has led to a global policy of artemisinin-based combination therapy. Despite growing resistance chloroquine (CQ) remained until recently the official first-line treatment for falciparum malaria in Pakistan, with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) second-line. Co-tre...