Safety and tolerability of combination antimalarial therapies for uncomplicated falciparum malaria in Ugandan children.

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Published in Malar J on June 11, 2008

Authors

Catherine Maiteki-Sebuguzi1, Prasanna Jagannathan, Vincent M Yau, Tamara D Clark, Denise Njama-Meya, Bridget Nzarubara, Ambrose O Talisuna, Moses R Kamya, Philip J Rosenthal, Grant Dorsey, Sarah G Staedke

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. cmaiteki@yahoo.com

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