Using a combination of two malaria drugs could stave off an “impending malaria treatment crisis” in Africa, a new study indicates.
Giving young children in Tanzania a six-dose course of artemether plus lumefantrine cleared the malarial parasite from the blood of 99% of patients after 14 days, showed the trial by led by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. This was far more effective than more conventional drugs or other combinations used in the study of about 1800 children, aged four months to 59 months.
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