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SUBMITTER: Hodel EM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5303033 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20161128 2
Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) is recommended for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria, used in efforts to contain artemisinin resistance, and increasingly considered for mass drug administration. Because of the narrow therapeutic dose range and available tablet strengths, the manufacturers and World Health Organization recommended regimens involve breaking tablets into halves to accurately dose children according to body weight. Use of tablet fractions in programmatic settings under trop ...[more]