Search

Scholarly Works (2 results)

Article
Peer Reviewed

Impact of intermittent preventive treatment with dihydroartemisinin- piperaquine on Malaria in Ugandan schoolchildren: A randomized, placebo-controlled trial

Rosenthal, Philip;
Nankabirwa, JI;
Wandera, B;
Amuge, P;
Kiwanuka, N;
Dorsey, G;
Rosenthal, PJ;
Brooker, SJ;
Staedke, SG;
Kamya, MR

UC San Francisco Previously Published Works (2014)

Intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) in schoolchildren offers a promising option for malaria control. However, the optimal drug and dosing regimens for IPT remain to be determined. Methods. We conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled tri

Article
Peer Reviewed

Estimating malaria parasite prevalence from community surveys in Uganda: A comparison of microscopy, rapid diagnostic tests and polymerase chain reaction

Rosenthal, Philip;
Greenhouse, Bryan;
Dorsey, Matthew;
Nankabirwa, JI;
Yeka, A;
Arinaitwe, E;
Kigozi, R;
Drakeley, C;
Kamya, MR;
Rosenthal, PJ;
Dorsey, G;
Staedke, SG

UC San Francisco Previously Published Works (2015)

© 2015 Nankabirwa et al.Background: Household surveys are important tools for monitoring the malaria disease burden and measuring impact of malaria control interventions with parasite prevalence as the primary metric. However, estimates of parasite prevale