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Effectiveness of Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Pregnancy with Sulphadoxine-Pyrimethamine against Submicroscopic falciparum Malaria in Central Region, Ghana

Nwaefuna, Ekene K.; Afoakwah, Richmond; Orish, Verner N.; Egyir-Yawson, Alexander; Boampong, Johnson N. (University of Cape Coast, 2015-08-30)

Malaria infections undetectable by microscopy but detectable by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) (submicroscopic malaria) are common in endemic areas like Ghana. Submicroscopic malaria has been linked with severe pregnancy ...
High prevalence of PfCRT K76T mutation in Plasmodium falciparum isolates in Ghana

Afoakwah, Richard; Boampong, Johnson Nyarko; Egyir-Yawson, Alexander; Nwaefuna, Ekene K.; Verner, Orish N.; Asare, Kwame K. (University of Cape Coast, 2014-04)

Plasmodium falciparum has successfully developed resistance to almost all currently used antimalarials. A single nucleotide polymorphism in the P. falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter (Pfcrt) gene at position ...
High prevalence of PfCRTK76T mutationin Plasmodium falciparum isolates in Ghana

Afoakwah, Richmond; Boampong, Johnson N.; Egyir-Yawson, Alexander; Nwaefuna, Ekene K.; Verner, Orish N.; Asare, Kwame K. (University of Cape Coast, 2013)

Plasmodium falciparum has successfully developed resistance to almost allcurrently used antimalarials. A single nucleotide polymorphism in the P. falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter (Pfcrt) gene at position 76 ...
Quality of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine given as antimalarial prophylaxis in pregnant women in selected health facilities in Central Region of Ghana

Yeboah, Danny F.; Afoakwah, Richmond; Nwaefuna, Ekene K.; Verner, Orish; Boampong, Johnson N. (University of Cape Coast, 2015)

The use of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) as an intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) against malaria during pregnancy has become a policy in most sub-Sahara African countries and crucially depends on the efcacy of SP. ...
Quality of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine given as antimalarial prophylaxis in pregnant women in selected health facilities in Central Region of Ghana

Yeboah, Danny F.; Afoakwah, Richmond; Nwaefuna, Ekene K.; Verner, Orish; Boampong, Johnson N. (University of Cape Coast, 2015)

The use of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) as an intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) against malaria during pregnancy has become a policy in most sub-Sahara African countries and crucially depends on the efcacy of SP. ...
Quality of Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine Given as Antimalarial Prophylaxis in Pregnant Women in Selected Health Facilities in Central Region of Ghana

Yeboah, Danny F.; Afoakwah, Richmond; Nwaefuna, Ekene K.; Verner, Orish (Hindawi, 2016)

The use of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) as an intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) against malaria during pregnancy has become a policy in most sub-Sahara African countries and crucially depends on the efficacy of ...
Relative Susceptibilities of ABO Blood Groups to Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in Ghana

Afoakwah, Richmond; Aubyn, Edmond; Prah, James; Nwaefuna, Ekene K.; Boampong, Johnson Nyarko (Hindawi, 2016)

The clinical outcome of falciparum malaria in endemic areas is influenced by erythrocyte polymorphisms including the ABO blood groups. Studies have reported association of ABO blood group to resistance, susceptibility, ...
Typhoid-Malaria Co-infection in Ghana

Afoakwah, Richmond; Acheampong, Desmond Omane; Boampong, Johnson Nyarko; Sarpong-Baidoo, Margaret; Nwaefuna, Ekene K.; Tefe, Patience S. (2011)

Malaria and typhoid fever are among the most endemic diseases in the tropics. The emergence of multi-drug resistant strains of Salmonella typhi and Plasmodium falciparum poses a big challenge to eradication of both ...

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