Selam Mihreteab, Lucien Platon, Araia Berhane, Barbara H Stokes, Marian Warsame, Pascal Campagne, Alexis Criscuolo, Laurence Ma, Nathalie Petiot, Cécile Doderer-Lang, Eric Legrand, Kurt E Ward, Assefash Zehaie Kassahun, Pascal Ringwald, David A Fidock, Didier Ménard
BACKGROUND: Although the clinical efficacy of antimalarial artemisinin-based combination therapies in Africa remains high, the recent emergence of partial resistance to artemisinin in Plasmodium falciparum on the continent is troubling, given the lack of alternative treatments. METHODS: In this study, we used data from drug-efficacy studies conducted between 2016 and 2019 that evaluated 3-day courses of artemisinin-based combination therapy (artesunate-amodiaquine or artemether-lumefantrine) for uncomplicated malaria in Eritrea to estimate the percentage of patients with day-3 positivity (i...
September 28, 2023: New England Journal of Medicine