PMID- 17535170
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20080129
LR  - 20070530
IS  - 1034-4810 (Print)
IS  - 1034-4810 (Linking)
VI  - 43
IP  - 6
DP  - 2007 Jun
TI  - Review of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants and children.
PG  - 424-8
AB  - Malaria is one of the greatest killers of children in the world. Treatment is 
      available, but there are problems with affordability, availability, accessibility 
      and increasing drug resistance. A new regime, intermittent preventive treatment 
      in infants (IPTi) shows promise. It involves giving a treatment course of 
      antimalarial drugs, regardless of parasitaemia, at intervals over the first year 
      of life. The aim is to decrease the frequency of malarial illness while allowing 
      the development of natural immunity. Its strength is that it can be linked with 
      the childhood immunisation schedule. Early studies are encouraging, but much 
      remains to be learned before its potential place in the prevention of malaria in 
      children can be determined and it can safely be introduced as public policy. A 
      review of the literature was performed in July 2006 for references relating to 
      IPTi and other forms of personal prevention of malaria in infants and children.
FAU - Munday, Sally
AU  - Munday S
AD  - Anton Breinl Centre, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia. 
      marcia.croucher@jcu.edu.au
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PL  - Australia
TA  - J Paediatr Child Health
JT  - Journal of paediatrics and child health
JID - 9005421
RN  - 0 (Antimalarials)
SB  - IM
MH  - Antimalarials/pharmacology/*therapeutic use
MH  - Child
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - Malaria/drug therapy/*prevention & control
RF  - 37
EDAT- 2007/05/31 09:00
MHDA- 2008/01/30 09:00
CRDT- 2007/05/31 09:00
PHST- 2007/05/31 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/01/30 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/05/31 09:00 [entrez]
AID - JPC1105 [pii]
AID - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2007.01105.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Paediatr Child Health. 2007 Jun;43(6):424-8. doi: 
      10.1111/j.1440-1754.2007.01105.x.