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| Title |
The end of a dogma: the safety of doxycycline use in young children for malaria treatment
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Malaria Journal, April 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12936-017-1797-9 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Tiphaine Gaillard, Sébastien Briolant, Marylin Madamet, Bruno Pradines |
| Abstract |
Anti-malarial drug resistance to chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine has spread from Southeast Asia to Africa. Furthermore, the recent emergence of resistance to artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) in Southeast Asia highlights the need to identify new anti-malarial drugs. Doxycycline is recommended for malaria chemoprophylaxis for travel in endemic areas, or in combination with the use of quinine for malaria treatment when ACT is unavailable or when the treatment of severe malaria with artesunate fails. However, doxycycline is not used in young children under 8 years of age due to its contraindication due to the risk of yellow tooth discolouration and dental enamel hypoplasia. Doxycycline was developed after tetracycline and was labelled with the same side-effects as the earlier tetracyclines. However, recent studies report little or no effects of doxycycline on tooth staining or dental enamel hypoplasia in children under 8 years of age. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recommended the use of doxycycline for the treatment of acute and chronic Q fever and tick-borne rickettsial diseases in young children. It is time to rehabilitate doxycycline and to recommend it for malaria treatment in children under 8 years of age. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Congo, The Democratic Republic of the | 1 | 10% |
| Serbia | 1 | 10% |
| United States | 1 | 10% |
| Canada | 1 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |
| Belgium | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 4 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 40% |
| Members of the public | 4 | 40% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 146 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Mozambique | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 144 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 22 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 11% |
| Other | 15 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 8% |
| Other | 28 | 19% |
| Unknown | 38 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 53 | 36% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 12 | 8% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 9 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 4% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 14 | 10% |
| Unknown | 46 | 32% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 January 2024.
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#1,805,303
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Outputs from Malaria Journal
#299
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#34,212
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Outputs of similar age from Malaria Journal
#13
of 136 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 5,869 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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