A Community Setting Study of Malaria After Systematic Treatment of Symptomatic Carriers of P. Falciparum With COA566 (Coartem®)

Summary

This study assessed the impact of the systematic detection by Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) and treatment of asymptomatic carriers of malaria parasites (P. falciparum) with COA566 on a number of clinical malaria cases in children less than 5 years of age and the improvement of hemoglobin levels in the overall population.

Timeline

Start

2010-11

Primary completion

2012-07

Completion

2012-07

Publications

• Background Ogutu B, Tiono AB, Makanga M, Premji Z, Gbadoe AD, Ubben D, Marrast AC, Gaye O. Treatment of asymptomatic carriers with artemether-lumefantrine: an opportunity to reduce the burden of malaria? Malar J. 2010 Jan 22;9:30. doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-30.
• Tiono AB, Guelbeogo MW, Sagnon NF, Nebie I, Sirima SB, Mukhopadhyay A, Hamed K. Dynamics of malaria transmission and susceptibility to clinical malaria episodes following treatment of Plasmodium falciparum asymptomatic carriers: results of a cluster-randomized study of community-wide screening and treatment, and a parallel entomology study. BMC Infect Dis. 2013 Nov 12;13:535. doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-535.

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