Example sentences for: sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine

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  • SP sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine

  • In Kenya, approximately 26,000 children die each year from malaria, or about 72 per day [ 9 ] . In August 1998 the Government of Kenya changed its first-line anti-malarial treatment from chloroquine to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) [ 10 ] . Amodiaquine was to be the second-line drug.

  • The number of deaths is increasing, and one key factor linked to this has been widespread drug resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to conventional antimalarials, such as sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP); such resistance is widespread in southeast Asia, South America, and Africa.

  • One of the greatest challenges facing Africa in the fight against malaria is drug resistance; resistance to chloroquine (CQ), the cheapest and most widely used antimalarial, is common throughout Africa, and resistance to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), the first-developed and least expensive alternative to CQ, is also increasing in eastern and southern Africa.


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