2023
DOI: 10.4314/ajcem.v24i2.12
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Malaria treatment failure after Artemisinin-based combination therapy: A case series of children managed at a private tertiary hospital in southwest Nigeria

Abstract: Malaria treatment failure is the inability to clear parasitaemia after antimalarial drug administration. There are reports of treatment failure with  artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) in Nigeria but few reported among children. We report three paediatric cases of treatment failure with ACT  admitted at a private tertiary hospital in Nigeria in early 2022. All three were ‘under-fives’ admitted for open-heart surgery, major flame burns, and  cerebral malaria respectively. They had symptomatic Plasmodiu… Show more

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