D S Tarimo

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Publications

  1. ncbi Mothers' perceptions and knowledge on childhood malaria in the holendemic Kibaha district, Tanzania: implications for malaria control and the IMCI strategy
    D S Tarimo
    Department of Parasitology Entomology, Institute of Public Health, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Trop Med Int Health 5:179-84. 2000
  2. ncbi Health workers perceptions on chloroquine and sulfadoxine/sulfalene pyrimethamine monotherapies: implications for the change to combination therapy of artemether/lumefantrine in Tanzania
    D S Tarimo
    Department of Parasitology and Medical Entomology, School of Public Health and Social Sciences, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    East Afr J Public Health 4:43-6. 2007
  3. ncbi Malaria diagnosis and treatment under the strategy of the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI): relevance of laboratory support from the rapid immunochromatographic tests of ICT Malaria P.f/P.v and OptiMal
    D S Tarimo
    Department of Parasitology and Medical Entomology, Institute of Public Health, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam, P O Box 65001, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Ann Trop Med Parasitol 95:437-44. 2001
  4. ncbi Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine monotherapy in Tanzanian children gives rapid parasite clearance but slow fever clearance that is improved by chloroquine in combination therapy
    D S Tarimo
    Department of Parasitology and Medical Entomology, Institute of Public Health, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Trop Med Int Health 7:592-8. 2002
  5. ncbi Prevalence of intestinal parasites in adult patients with enteropathic AIDS in north-eastern Tanzania
    D S Tarimo
    Department of Parasitology Medical Entomology, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    East Afr Med J 73:397-9. 1996
  6. ncbi The roles of the pfcrt 76T and pfmdr1 86Y mutations, immunity and the initial level of parasitaemia, in predicting the outcome of chloroquine treatment in two areas with different transmission intensities
    I F Khalil
    Department of International Health, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Immunology and Center for Medical Parasitology CMP, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Ann Trop Med Parasitol 99:441-8. 2005

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  1. ncbi Mothers' perceptions and knowledge on childhood malaria in the holendemic Kibaha district, Tanzania: implications for malaria control and the IMCI strategy
    D S Tarimo
    Department of Parasitology Entomology, Institute of Public Health, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Trop Med Int Health 5:179-84. 2000
    ..The implications of these findings for chemotherapeutic malaria control in holoendemic areas within the context of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) strategy are discussed...
  2. ncbi Health workers perceptions on chloroquine and sulfadoxine/sulfalene pyrimethamine monotherapies: implications for the change to combination therapy of artemether/lumefantrine in Tanzania
    D S Tarimo
    Department of Parasitology and Medical Entomology, School of Public Health and Social Sciences, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    East Afr J Public Health 4:43-6. 2007
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  3. ncbi Malaria diagnosis and treatment under the strategy of the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI): relevance of laboratory support from the rapid immunochromatographic tests of ICT Malaria P.f/P.v and OptiMal
    D S Tarimo
    Department of Parasitology and Medical Entomology, Institute of Public Health, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam, P O Box 65001, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Ann Trop Med Parasitol 95:437-44. 2001
    ..Wherever the effective drugs for the first-line treatment of malaria are cheap (e.g. chloroquine and Fansidar), treatment based on clinical diagnosis alone should prove cost-saving in health facilities without microscopy...
  4. ncbi Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine monotherapy in Tanzanian children gives rapid parasite clearance but slow fever clearance that is improved by chloroquine in combination therapy
    D S Tarimo
    Department of Parasitology and Medical Entomology, Institute of Public Health, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Trop Med Int Health 7:592-8. 2002
    ..Despite its diminishing antimalarial activity, CQ has beneficial in vivo antipyretic effects in therapeutic combination with SP...
  5. ncbi Prevalence of intestinal parasites in adult patients with enteropathic AIDS in north-eastern Tanzania
    D S Tarimo
    Department of Parasitology Medical Entomology, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    East Afr Med J 73:397-9. 1996
    ..The fact that a high proportion of patients with chronic diarrhoea (51.3%) had no identifiable parasitic agents, suggests that other infectious agents or alternative mechanisms other than infections are responsible for the diarrhoea...
  6. ncbi The roles of the pfcrt 76T and pfmdr1 86Y mutations, immunity and the initial level of parasitaemia, in predicting the outcome of chloroquine treatment in two areas with different transmission intensities
    I F Khalil
    Department of International Health, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Immunology and Center for Medical Parasitology CMP, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Ann Trop Med Parasitol 99:441-8. 2005
    ..The 76T and 86Y alleles could still be used as predictive markers for CQR, in non-immune individuals and low-transmission areas...