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Trial reportThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2014

Pharmacokinetics of artesunate alone and in combination with sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine in healthy Sudanese volunteers.

Kamal M Matar, Abdelmoneim I Awad, Sakina B Elamin

Open access · bronzeAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kamal M MatarDepartment of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Kuwait University, Kuwait; National Medicines and Poisons Board, Khartoum, Sudan kamal@hsc.edu.kw.
Abdelmoneim I AwadDepartment of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Kuwait University, Kuwait; National Medicines and Poisons Board, Khartoum, Sudan.
Sakina B ElaminDepartment of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Kuwait University, Kuwait; National Medicines and Poisons Board, Khartoum, Sudan.
Kuwait University · KW

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Artesunate (AS) in combination with sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine (SP) is the first-line therapy for management of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Sudan. The objective of this study was to assess the potential impact of SP on the pharmacokinetics of AS and its active metabolite, dihydroartemisinin (DHA), in healthy adults. A single-dose, randomized, open-label, crossover study design with a washout period of three weeks was performed with 16 volunteers. After oral administration of AS alone or in combination with SP, Tmax values of AS and DHA were significantly prolonged in the combination group (P < 0.05). However, there was no significant effect on the other pharmacokinetic parameters (P > 0.05). The t1/2 values of AS and DHA were significantly higher in females than in males (P < 0.05). The present findings suggest that co-administration of SP with AS has no clinically relevant impact on the pharmacokinetics of AS or DHA in healthy persons.

Indexed as

Administration, OralAdultAntimalarialsArtemisininsArtesunateCross-Over StudiesDrug CombinationsDrug Therapy, CombinationFemaleHumansMalaria, FalciparumMalePlasmodium falciparumPyrimethamineSudanSulfadoxineAntimalarialsArtemisininsartenimolArtesunateDrug Combinationsfanasil, pyrimethamine drug combinationPyrimethamineSulfadoxine

Identifiers

PMID24615137
PMCPMC4047733
OpenAlexW2108301885

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