Disease and Drug Interactions: Treating Malaria with Artesunate plus Amodiaquine in Patients also Receiving Treatment for Concomitant HIV Infection | Zendy

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Disease and Drug Interactions: Treating Malaria with Artesunate plus Amodiaquine in Patients also Receiving Treatment for Concomitant HIV Infection

Author(s) -

Piero Olliaro

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/529193

Subject(s) - medicine , amodiaquine , coinfection , concomitant , artesunate , malaria , context (archaeology) , drug , disease , immunology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , pharmacology , chloroquine , plasmodium falciparum , paleontology , biology

place and made available. However, although all elements of the interaction between these 2 diseases are not yet clear, there is mounting evidence that coinfection adversely affects either disease and causes excess morbidity and mortality, particularly among vulnerable groups, such as young children and pregnant women. Drugs may also behave differently in the context of coinfection or when con-

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