New medicines for tropical diseases in pregnancy: catch-22

PLoS Med. 2008 Jun 17;5(6):e133. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050133.

Abstract

Nicholas White and colleagues discuss why it is so important to conduct clinical trials of malaria treatments in pregnancy.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Infective Agents / adverse effects
  • Anti-Infective Agents / therapeutic use
  • Artemisinins / therapeutic use
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Malaria / drug therapy
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / drug therapy*
  • Pregnancy Complications, Parasitic / drug therapy*
  • Tropical Climate
  • Tropical Medicine / trends*

Substances

  • Anti-Infective Agents
  • Artemisinins
  • artemisinin