- Abstract:
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BACKGROUND: Following the development of resistance to anti-malarial mono-therapies, malaria endemic countries in Africa now use artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) as recommended first-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria. Patients' adherence to ACT is an important factor to ensure treatment efficacy, as well as to reduce the likelihood of parasite resistance to these drugs. This study reports adherence to a specific ACT, artemether-lumefantrine (AL), under conditions of routine...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Publisher's version
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Ltd. Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Malaria journal Journal website
- Volume:
- 10
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 281
- Publication date:
- 2011-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1475-2875
- ISSN:
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1475-2875
- URN:
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uuid:95aef457-c61b-46fe-9612-f8966f366231
- Source identifiers:
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180444
- Local pid:
- pubs:180444
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Copyright holder:
- Lawford et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2011
- Notes:
- © 2011 Lawford et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Adherence to prescribed artemisinin-based combination therapy in Garissa and Bunyala districts, Kenya.
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