HIV-exposed, uninfected infants: new global challenges in the era of paediatric HIV elimination

C Evans, CE Jones, AJ Prendergast - The Lancet infectious diseases, 2016 - thelancet.com
The number of infants infected with HIV is declining with the rise in interventions for the
elimination of paediatric HIV infection, but the number of uninfected infants exposed to HIV …

The expanding role of co-trimoxazole in developing countries

JA Church, F Fitzgerald, AS Walker… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Co-trimoxazole is an inexpensive, broad-spectrum antimicrobial drug that is widely used in
developing countries. Before antiretroviral therapy (ART) scale-up, co-trimoxazole …

Daily co-trimoxazole prophylaxis to prevent mortality in children with complicated severe acute malnutrition: a multicentre, double-blind, randomised placebo …

JA Berkley, M Ngari, J Thitiri, L Mwalekwa… - The Lancet Global …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background Children with complicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) have a greatly
increased risk of mortality from infections while in hospital and after discharge. In HIV …

IFNγ/IL-10 co-producing cells dominate the CD4 response to malaria in highly exposed children

P Jagannathan, I Eccles-James, K Bowen… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Although evidence suggests that T cells are critical for immunity to malaria, reliable T cell
correlates of exposure to and protection from malaria among children living in endemic …

Protective efficacy and safety of three antimalarial regimens for the prevention of malaria in young Ugandan children: a randomized controlled trial

V Bigira, J Kapisi, TD Clark, S Kinara, F Mwangwa… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Chemoprevention offers a promising strategy for prevention of malaria in
African children. However, the optimal chemoprevention drug and dosing strategy is unclear …

Increasing incidence of malaria in children despite insecticide-treated bed nets and prompt anti-malarial therapy in Tororo, Uganda

P Jagannathan, MK Muhindo, A Kakuru, E Arinaitwe… - Malaria journal, 2012 - Springer
Background The burden of malaria has decreased in parts of Africa following the scaling up
of control interventions. However, similar data are limited from high transmission settings …

Antibiotics in malaria therapy: which antibiotics except tetracyclines and macrolides may be used against malaria?

T Gaillard, M Madamet, FF Tsombeng, J Dormoi… - Malaria journal, 2016 - Springer
Malaria, a parasite vector-borne disease, is one of the most significant health threats in
tropical regions, despite the availability of individual chemoprophylaxis. Malaria …

Drug repurposing: a review of old and new antibiotics for the treatment of malaria: identifying antibiotics with a fast onset of antiplasmodial action

L Pessanha de Carvalho, A Kreidenweiss, J Held - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Malaria is one of the most life-threatening infectious diseases and constitutes a major health
problem, especially in Africa. Although artemisinin combination therapies remain efficacious …

Safety and Efficacy of Co-Trimoxazole for Treatment and Prevention of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria: A Systematic Review

C Manyando, EM Njunju, U D'Alessandro… - PLos one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Cotrimoxazole (CTX) has been used for half a century. It is inexpensive hence
the reason for its almost universal availability and wide clinical spectrum of use. In the last …

Impact of mass and systematic antibiotic administration on antibiotic resistance in low-and middle-income countries. A systematic review

L Rambliere, D Guillemot… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Antibiotic consumption is a key driver of antibiotic resistance (AR), particularly in low-and
middle-income countries, where risk factors for AR emergence and spread are rife …