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Filter by:Malaria is caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium and it is the most important parasitic disease in terms of mortality and morbidity. Estimates of 247 million malaria cases and 619.000 deaths worldwide were reported by WHO for the year 2021 (1). Plasmodium falciparum can lead to severe malaria and accounts for 90% of malaria deaths that mainly occur in children below the age of 5 years in Sub-Saharan Africa. A simplified treatment regimen, ideally a single-day cure (or at most 2-day dosing regimen), of uncomplicated malaria due to P. falciparum would be the magic in the antimalarial armamentarium. Improving treatment adherence is one of the key factors in reducing mortality and morbidity and also the transmission of malaria, and such a regimen would substantially increase adherence. To find a new non-artemisinin combination therapy with a shorter regimen, ideally, a single-dose cure, with low resistance potential would be the aim. The two compounds tested here are ZY19489, a triaminopyrimidine, and ferroquine (FQ), a next-generation 4-aminoquinoline. Both compounds show unique features in terms of long half-life, and activity against current drug-resistant strains. Therefore, the main goal of this clinical trial is to assess the safety of the ZY19489-FQ combination given as a 1- or 2-day dose regimen.
Malaria remains a major public health concern in Cameroon especially among vulnerable groups such as children less than five years and pregnant women. Artesunate-amodiaquine (ASAQ) and artemether-lumefantrine (AL) have been used for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum in Cameroon since 2004. Worldwide, several studies among children have reported high efficacy and safety of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs). There is paucity of data to support the continuous use of ASAQ and AL in Cameroon. The main objective of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety of artesunate-amodiaquine and artemether-lumefantrine during a 28-day follow-up period in children with acute uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria in the Center Region of Cameroon. A randomized, open-labelled, controlled clinical trial comparing artesunate-amodiaquine (ASAQ) and artemether-lumefantrine (AL) will be carried out from 5th April to 31st December, 2021 at six hospitals in the Center Region of Cameroon. The study participants shall include febrile patients aged 6 months to 10 years with confirmed uncomplicated P. falciparum infection. Eligible children for whom parent/guardian informed consents are obtained will be randomized to receive either artesunate-amodiaquine (group A) or artemether-lumefantrine (group B) in the ratio 1:1. A minimum sample of 76 patients will be required for the study. With a 20 % increase to allow loss to follow-up and withdrawals during the 28-day follow-up period, 92 patients will be enrolled for each of the two study arms. The study will recruit a total of 184 patients. However, since 6 sites will be involved, a minimum of 30 participants shall be enrolled per site. Drug intake will be done under strict supervision on days 0, 1 and 2. Follow-up visits will be performed on days 3, 7, 14, 21, and 28 to evaluate clinical and parasitological resolution of their malaria episode as well as adverse events. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) genotyping of merozoite surface proteins 1 and 2 (msp-1, msp-2) as well as glutamate rich protein (GLURP) will be used to differentiate between recrudescence and new infection.
This project aims to disentangle the role of host immune resistance and disease tolerance in afebrile malaria infections, with the goal of guiding context-adapted tactics to target this hidden reservoir, as well as to develop new approaches to clear malaria infection and reduce its severity through host-directed therapies.
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety of intravenous sodium nitrite in African children who have moderately severe malaria.
An antimalarial drug efficacy trial was conducted for artemether-lumefantrine (AL) and chloroquine (CQ) in the three (3) municipalities (Bataraza, Brookes and Rizal) of Palawan. Study subjects are febrile individuals between > 6 months old and 59 years old with confirmed uncomplicated P. falciparum or P. vivax infections. Patients with P. falciparum was treated with Artemether-lumefantrine administered 3 days (Days 0, 1 and 2) according to body weight. Primaquine at 0.75 mg base/kg body weight single dose was given on Day 3. For Plasmodium vivax patients chloroquine were administered according to body weight at a total dose of 25 mg/kg over 3 days (10 mg/kg on Day 0; 10 mg/kg on Day 1 and 5 mg/kg on Day 2), and primaquine following the National Treatment Guidelines. During the period that this report covers, 84 and 75 patients met the inclusion criteria for Pf and Pv respectively. Clinical and parasitological parameters were monitored over a 28-day follow-up period for both drugs. The presence of only 1 Late Clinical Failure (LCF) of P. falciparum parasitemia out of 84 enrolled patients and 2 Late Parasitological Failure (LPF) of P. vivax patients out of 75 enrolled patients within the 28 days follow up suggest that both drugs are still efficacious.
This study is designed as a multi-centre randomized, open label trial to compare the safety and efficacy of a high dose primaquine (PQ) treatment in G6PD normal patients with P. falciparum to reduce the risk of subsequent P. vivax episodes to current standard practice of providing only schizontocidal treatment.
A randomized controlled trial to assess the safety and efficacy of azithromycin combination therapy for use in severe malaria. This pilot trial will be conducted in uncomplicated malaria patients in southeastern Bangladesh.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of lower doses of primaquine compared to the dose recommended by the WHO for reducing P. falciparum gametocytes in the infected human host to prevent transmission of falciparum malaria to the anopheles mosquito vector.
Because the artemisinins are the most potent antimalarial drugs, the reduction in parasite numbers is rapid. Therefore, early measures of reducing parasite counts are needed. This study will look at conventional markers of parasite reduction e.g. parasite clearance time, parasite reduction ratio, and the time to achieve a fall of 50%, 90% and 99% of the pre-treatment parasitaemia. Defining artemisinin resistance requires the use of artesunate (AS) alone because it is now appreciated that the partner drug in a combination treatment has a significant impact on the rate of parasite clearance. This study will dose patients for 3 days with AS alone (or longer until parasites clear) and measure the parasite count frequently in order to be able to define an accurate regression line of a graph of the natural logarithm of the parasite count (Y axis) versus time (X axis). This will be followed by a full course of an artemisinin combination therapy (ACT). Two different dose regimens of artesunate will be compared at all sites except those in western Cambodia, as unpublished observations from the Thai-Myanmar border suggest the standard lower daily dose of 2mg/kg may enable the earlier detection of low level resistance than a 4mg/kg daily dose.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the fixed combination of artesunate+mefloquine in the treatment of uncomplicated malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum in the municipality of Cruzeiro do Sul, Juruá Valley, Brazil, where it was being used as specific first-line drug.