Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Assessing the impact of imperfect adherence to artemether-lumefantrine on malaria treatment outcomes using within-host modelling

  • Joseph D. Challenger,
  • Katia Bruxvoort,
  • Azra C. Ghani,
  • Lucy C. Okell

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01352-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Artemether lumefantrine is widely used for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria. The impact of imperfect patient adherence to the six-dose regimen is hard to assess. Using adherence data for unsupervised patients, the authors model how suboptimal adherence affects treatment outcomes.