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A randomized comparison of Chloroquine versus Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine for the treatment of Plasmodium vivax infection in Vietnam
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A total of 128 Vietnamese patients with symptomatic Plasmodium vivax mono-infections were enrolled in a prospective, open-label, randomized trial to receive either chloroquine or dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine (DHA-PPQ). The proportions of patients with adequate clinical and parasitological responses were 47% in the chloroquine arm (31 of 65 patients) and 66% in the DHA-PPQ arm (42 of 63 patients) in the Kaplan–Meier intention-to-treat analysis (absolute difference 19%, 95% confidence interva...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0740
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- American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Journal:
- American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene More from this journal
- Volume:
- 94
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 879-885
- Publication date:
- 2016-02-08
- Acceptance date:
- 2015-12-14
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1476-1645
- ISSN:
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0002-9637
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pubs:618118
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- 2016
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- Copyright © 2016 byy The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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