The treatment of falciparum malaria in children with halofantrine suspension
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Halofantrine in the treatment of falciparum malaria.
50 patients (45 males + 5 females) suffering from acute uncomplicated attack of Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria were treated with 1500 mg of halofantrine divided in three doses of 500 mg each given at an interval of 6 h. Results showed there were no primary treatment failures. Average Parasite Clearance Time (av. PCT) was 51.12 h and average Fever Clearance Time (av. FCT) was 31.25 h. Advers...
متن کاملRecrudescence of falciparum malaria following treatment with halofantrine.
In 1991, some 90 countries or areas where 42% of the world's population resided were considered malarious and estimation of malaria mortality worldwide per year was 1.5 to 3 million'). The Ministry of Justice reported that the total number of Japanese who went abroad was as many as 11,790, 699 and the number of foreigners who entered Japan for the first time was 3,251,753 in 1992. Consequently ...
متن کاملHalofantrine Treatment of acute Plasmodium falciparum malaria in infants and young children
Introduction Malaria in very young children is a major therapeutic challenge in highly endemic areas where initial infection can occur in the first few months of life. Because active immunity has not begun to be established, infants are most at risk from falciparum malaria, and it has been estimated by the World Health Organisation that up to 1096 of all infant mortality in Africa is directly o...
متن کاملEfficacy of halofantrine in malaria.
five per cent of the total cases of malaria in our country occur in children below 15 years of age(2). Of late, more and more cases appear to be resistant to chloroquine and also to other antimalarials(3). This is particularly so with Plasmodium falciparum malaria(4). In India, chloroquine resistant strains of P. falciparum were demonstrated in 19 states of the country in 1986(5). Halofantrine,...
متن کاملA clinical trial with halofantrine on patients with falciparum malaria in Colombia.
A total of 120 semi-immune adult male malaria patients from an area of multidrug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria were hospitalized for 42 days in Medellin, Colombia (an area of no malaria transmission), and treated with halofantrine in a double-blind, randomized, prospective clinical trial according to five different treatment schedules. Each patient was assigned to one of the following...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0074-0276
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02761992000700044