Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic considerations in antimalarial dose optimization

NJ White - Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Antimalarial drugs have usually been first deployed in areas of malaria endemicity at doses
which were too low, particularly for high-risk groups such as young children and pregnant …

Malaria PK/PD and the role pharmacometrics can play in the global health arena: malaria treatment regimens for vulnerable populations

E Hughes, E Wallender, A Mohamed Ali… - Clinical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Malaria is an infectious disease which disproportionately effects children and pregnant
women. These vulnerable populations are often excluded from clinical trials resulting in one …

Population pharmacokinetic properties of piperaquine in falciparum malaria: an individual participant data meta-analysis

RM Hoglund, L Workman, MD Edstein, NX Thanh… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) are the mainstay of the current
treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria, but ACT resistance is …

Safety, pharmacokinetics, and mosquito‐lethal effects of ivermectin in combination with dihydroartemisinin‐piperaquine and primaquine in healthy adult Thai subjects

KC Kobylinski, P Jittamala… - Clinical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mass administration of antimalarial drugs and ivermectin are being considered as potential
accelerators of malaria elimination. The safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and mosquito …

Optimal dosing of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for seasonal malaria chemoprevention in young children

P Chotsiri, I Zongo, P Milligan, YD Compaore… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Young children are the population most severely affected by Plasmodium falciparum
malaria. Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) with amodiaquine and sulfadoxine …

Population pharmacokinetics and electrocardiographic effects of dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine in healthy volunteers

P Chotsiri, T Wattanakul, RM Hoglund… - British journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aims The aims of the present study were to evaluate the pharmacokinetic properties of
dihydroartemisinin (DHA) and piperaquine, potential drug–drug interactions with …

Severe acute malnutrition results in lower lumefantrine exposure in children treated with artemether‐lumefantrine for uncomplicated malaria

P Chotsiri, L Denoeud‐Ndam, E Baudin… - Clinical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) has been reported to be associated with increased malaria
morbidity in Sub‐Saharan African children and may affect the pharmacology of antimalarial …

Lumefantrine and desbutyl-lumefantrine population pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic relationships in pregnant women with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum …

F Kloprogge, R McGready… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Artemether-lumefantrine is the most widely used antimalarial artemisinin-based combination
treatment. Recent studies have suggested that day 7 plasma concentrations of the potent …

Identifying an optimal dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine dosing regimen for malaria prevention in young Ugandan children

E Wallender, AM Ali, E Hughes, A Kakuru… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) is highly
protective against malaria in children, but is not standard in malaria-endemic countries …

Population pharmacokinetics of the antimalarial amodiaquine: a pooled analysis to optimize dosing

AM Ali, MA Penny, TA Smith, L Workman… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Amodiaquine plus artesunate is the recommended antimalarial treatment in many countries
where malaria is endemic. However, pediatric doses are largely based on a linear …