Does the Use of Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine in Treating Patients with Uncomplicated falciparum Malaria Reduce the Risk for Recurrent New falciparum Infection More Than Artemether-Lumefantrine?

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Published in Malar Res Treat on June 19, 2014

Authors

Wisdom Akpaloo1, Edward Purssell2

Author Affiliations

1: AngloGold Ashanti Hospital, P.O. Box 10, Obuasi, Ghana ; Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, London SE1 8WA, UK.
2: Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, London SE1 8WA, UK.

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