Therapy of uncomplicated malaria in children: a review of treatment principles, essential drugs and current recommendations.
Understanding the optimal treatment of uncomplicated malaria in children is challenging because of the availability of new drugs and the shift to combination therapies. This is a review of the guiding principles for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria, the essential anti-malarial drugs for children, and the treatment regimens currently recommended.
Deen
Jacqueline L
JL
Joint Malaria Programme, Tanga, Tanzania. jdeen@ivi.int
von Seidlein
Lorenz
L
Dondorp
Arjen
A
D000818:Animals; D000962:Antimalarials / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D037621:Artemisinins / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004334:Drug Administration Schedule; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008297:Male; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D000962:Antimalarials; D037621:Artemisinins