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Clinical Trials/ISRCTN10364429
ISRCTN10364429Completed未知

A randomised, open study to assess the safety and efficacy of a new artesunate-mefloquine coformulation with an equivalent dose regimen of the individual drugs for the treatment of acute uncomplicated falciparum malaria (Thailand)

Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) (Switzerland)0 sites500 target enrollmentStarted: June 7, 2005Last updated:
Conditions

Trial Snapshot

Phase
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Status
Completed
Sponsor
Enrollment
500

Study Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Study Design

Study Type
Interventional

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
All

Inclusion Criteria

  • 1. Age more than six months, either sex
  • 2. Minimum weight of 5 kg
  • 3. Microscopically confirmed mono or mixed infection of P. falciparum (asexual falciparum parasitaemia more than 5/500 White Blood Cell [WBC] count)
  • 4. History of fever or presence of fever (tympanic or axillary temperature more than 37.5°C)
  • 5. Written informed consent to participate in trial

Exclusion Criteria

  • 1. Pregnancy or lactation
  • 2. P. falciparum asexual stage parasitaemia more than 4% red blood cells (175,000/µL)
  • 3. Clinical features of severe malaria: impaired consciousness, inability to drink or breast feed, convulsions during the present illness, prostration, severe anaemia, respiratory distress, shock, spontaneous bleeding, acute haemolysis with haemoglobinuria
  • 4. Other significant illnesses or signs e.g. severe jaundice, liver disease, renal disease, severe malnutrition
  • 5. Recent ingestion of mefloquine within previous 60 days
  • 6. Contraindications to mefloquine - history of convulsions and/or neuropsychiatric illnesses
  • 7. Known hypersensitivity to artemisinins or mefloquine
  • 8. Splenectomy

Investigators

Sponsor
Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) (Switzerland)

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