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PK_AL_PREGNANCY_KENYA

Not Applicable
Conditions
Malaria
Registration Number
PACTR201211000451437
Lead Sponsor
Kenya Medical Research Institute
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Complete
Sex
Female
Target Recruitment
75
Inclusion Criteria

1.Pregnancy in the second or third trimester or non-pregnant females aged 18 to 40 years
2.Able to provide informed consent
3.Presence of fever (Temp ¿ 37.5°C) or a history of fever in the previous 2 days
4.Presence of asexual P. falciparum monoinfection or mixed infection with P. falciparum as the predominant infection
5.Initial parasite density of between 1000 and 200,000 asexual parasites / µl of blood
6.Not suffering from severe and complicated forms of malaria
7.Haemoglobin ¿ 8g/dl
8.Able to take drugs under study by the oral route

Exclusion Criteria

1.Severe and/or complicated malaria including severe anaemia (Hb <8 g/dl) and hyper-parasitaemia (>200,000 ¿l)
2.Patients treated with mefloquine, halofantrine within the 7 days before D0 (Day 0) or with quinine salts and artemisinin derivatives within 3 days before Day 0, or artemether-lumefantrine 30 days before Day 0.
3.Patients who require intensive care for malaria or another severe concomitant illness capable of interfering with the clinical evolution of malaria
4.Patients with vomiting and/or diarrhoea
5.Patients with known history of heart disease or arrhythmia
6.Patients taking concomitant medication that may interfere with study endpoints (see
7.History of allergy to artemether/lumefantrine or quinine

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Pharmacokinetics of artemether-lumefantrine
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
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