Plasmodium falciparum gametocytaemia in Nigerian children: before, during and after treatment with antimalarial drugs

A Sowunmi, BA Fateye - Tropical Medicine & International …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
We evaluated gametocyte carriage and intensities of gametocytaemia in 710 children
presenting with acute, symptomatic, uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria who …

Risk factors for gametocyte carriage in uncomplicated falciparum malaria in children

A Sowunmi, BA Fateye, AA Adedeji, FA Fehintola… - Parasitology, 2004 - cambridge.org
The risk factors associated with gametocytaemia at presentation and after treatment with
different antimalarial drug regimens were evaluated in 767 children enrolled prospectively in …

Levels and interactions of plasma xanthine oxidase, catalase and liver function parameters in Nigerian children with Plasmodium falciparum infection

BA Iwalokun, SB Bamiro, A Ogunledun - Apmis, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Elevated plasma levels of xanthine oxidase and liver function parameters have been
associated with inflammatory events in several human diseases. While xanthine oxidase …

A comparison of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine with chloroquine and pyrimethamine for prevention of malaria in pregnant Nigerian women

IU Tukur, TD Thacher, AS Sagay, JKA Madaki - 2007 - irepos.unijos.edu.ng
Few studies have documented the effectiveness in west Africa of intermittent preventive
treatment of malaria with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) in pregnancy. Pregnant Nigerian …

Open randomized study of pyrimethamine–sulphadoxine vs. pyrimethamine–sulphadoxine plus probenecid for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum …

A Sowunmi, FA Fehintola, AA Adedeji… - Tropical Medicine & …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Background Increasing drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum has necessitated
renewed search for cheap, effective alternatives to commonly available antimalarials …

Gametocyte sex ratios in children with asymptomatic, recrudescent, pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine-resistant, Plasmodium falciparum malaria

A Sowunmi, BA Fateye - Annals of Tropical Medicine & …, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
The clinical features of the primary Plasmodium falciparum infections in 25 children, and of
the recrudescent infections that emerged after pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine (PS) treatment of …

Predictors of the failure of treatment with chloroquine in children with acute, uncomplicated, Plasmodium falciparum malaria, in an area with high and increasing …

A Sowunmi, BA Fateye, AA Adedeji… - Annals of Tropical …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Resistance to chloroquine (CQ) in Plasmodium falciparum has reached unacceptably high
levels in many endemic countries. The pre-treatment factors that identify the children who …

Recrudescent Plasmodium falciparum infections in children in an endemic area following artemisinin–based combination treatments: Implications for disease control

GO Gbotosho, TM Okuboyejo, CT Happi… - Asian Pacific Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Objective To evaluate the features and risk factors associated with recrudescent infections
that arose following artemisinin-based combination drug treatment of the primary infections …

Pfcrt K76T mutation and its associations in imported Plasmodium falciparum malaria cases

A Berry, A Vessière, R Fabre, F Benoit-Vical… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2004 - Elsevier
Over 3 years (1999–2002), 305 cases of falciparum malaria were diagnosed in Toulouse,
France. After retrospective analysis, only 131 patients entered the study. The diagnosis of …

[PDF][PDF] Emergence of drug resistance in Plasmodiun falciparum: reasons of its dispersal and transmission in different climatic regions of the world: a review

RK Upadhyay - Clin Microbiol Infect Dis, 2016 - academia.edu
In the present time emergence, dispersal and transmission of drug resistant malaria parasite
P. falciparum has become a serious health problem in human being throughout the globe …