The remarkable tenacity of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine

Affiliations

¹ University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi.
² Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
³ Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. Electronic address: mlaufer@som.umaryland.edu.

Comment

Titus H Divala et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2019 May.

. 2019 May;19(5):460-461.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30796-5. Epub 2019 Mar 25.

¹ University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi.
² Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
³ Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. Electronic address: mlaufer@som.umaryland.edu.

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Effect of Plasmodium falciparum sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance on the effectiveness of intermittent preventive therapy for malaria in pregnancy in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
van Eijk AM, Larsen DA, Kayentao K, Koshy G, Slaughter DEC, Roper C, Okell LC, Desai M, Gutman J, Khairallah C, Rogerson SJ, Hopkins Sibley C, Meshnick SR, Taylor SM, Ter Kuile FO. van Eijk AM, et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2019 May;19(5):546-556. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30732-1. Epub 2019 Mar 25. Lancet Infect Dis. 2019. PMID: 30922818

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