Not exact matches
He's hired a crisis PR firm, and run into another pharmaceutical company that has decided to market a competing drug to Turing's
pyrimethamine (known on the market
as Daraprim) for $ 1 per dose.
Preventative treatment of malaria is a useful strategy to protect young children in Africa, but it is unclear which drug and dosing strategy is most effective, especially with the rise of resistance to a class of drug known
as antifolates, such
as sulfadoxine -
pyrimethamine (SP) and trimethoprim - sulfamethoxozole (TS).
Conclusions: The predominance of the Pf pfcrt CVIET and Pf dhfr IRN triple mutant parasites and absence of pfkelch13 resistance alleles suggest that the amodiaquine and
pyrimethamine components of
AS - AQ and SP may no longer be effective in their role while chloroquine resistance still persists in southwestern Cameroon.