Impact of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine versus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine on the incidence of malaria in infancy: a randomized controlled trial

Impact of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine versus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine on the incidence of malaria in infancy: a randomized controlled trial

Abstract Background Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria during pregnancy (IPTp) with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) significantly reduces the burden of malaria during pregnancy compared to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), the current standard of care, but its impact on the incidence of...

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Main Authors: Abel Kakuru, Prasanna Jagannathan, Richard Kajubi, Teddy Ochieng, Harriet Ochokoru, Miriam Nakalembe, Tamara D. Clark, Theodore Ruel, Sarah G. Staedke, Daniel Chandramohan, Diane V. Havlir, Moses R. Kamya, Grant Dorsey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-08-01
Series:BMC Medicine
Subjects:
Malaria
Intermittent preventive treatment
Pregnancy
Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine
Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine
Infants
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-020-01675-x

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