Open AccessA prospective study of adverse drug reactions to artemisinin-based combination therapy in a tertiary care hospital in India
Author(s) -
Mahesh N Belhekar,
Manjari Advani,
Sudhir Pawar
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of pharmacology/the indian journal of pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.286
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1998-3751
pISSN - 0253-7613
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7613.93863
Subject(s) - medicine , malaria , artemisinin , nausea , vomiting , chloroquine , incidence (geometry) , drug reaction , anorexia , adverse effect , combination therapy , drug , pediatrics , pharmacology , plasmodium falciparum , immunology , optics , physics
Antimalarial drugs are commonly prescribed for the treatment of malaria and suspected cases of malaria in India. The recent trend is to prescribe ACT and the incidence of adverse reactions to this therapy is notwell-documented in Indian population. Therefore, this study was designed to assess ADR pattern of antimalarial drugs particularly ACT in India.