Malnourished Child (IMAGE)

Infectious Diseases Data Observatory

Malnourished Child

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Researchers have found that severe malnutrition is associated with lower exposure to the antimalarial drug lumefantrine in children treated with artemether-lumefantrine, the most common treatment for uncomplicated falciparum malaria. The study, which is the first to specifically address this, has been published in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. It calls urgently for further research into optimised dosing regimens for undernourished children.

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UNAMID, Albert-González-Farran

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