Competing risk events in antimalarial drug trials in uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria: a WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network individual participant data meta-analysis

Abstract Background Therapeutic efficacy studies in uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria are confounded by new infections, which constitute competing risk events since they can potentially preclude/pre-empt the detection of subsequent recrudescence of persistent, sub-microscopic primary infec...

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Main Author: The WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network Methodology Study Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-07-01
Series:Malaria Journal
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12936-019-2837-4