Matthew Cairns

Summary

Affiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Duration of protection against malaria and anaemia provided by intermittent preventive treatment in infants in Navrongo, Ghana
    Matthew Cairns
    Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 3:e2227. 2008
  2. ncbi Mode of action and choice of antimalarial drugs for intermittent preventive treatment in infants
    Matthew Cairns
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
    Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 103:1199-201. 2009
  3. ncbi Amodiaquine dosage and tolerability for intermittent preventive treatment to prevent malaria in children
    M Cairns
    Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother 54:1265-74. 2010
  4. ncbi Duration of protection against clinical malaria provided by three regimens of intermittent preventive treatment in Tanzanian infants
    Matthew Cairns
    Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 5:e9467. 2010
  5. ncbi Modelling the protective efficacy of alternative delivery schedules for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants and children
    Matthew Cairns
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 6:e18947. 2011
  6. ncbi Protective efficacy of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants (IPTi) using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and parasite resistance
    Jamie T Griffin
    MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 5:e12618. 2010
  7. ncbi The clinical impact of combining intermittent preventive treatment with home management of malaria in children aged below 5 years: cluster randomised trial
    Harry Tagbor
    Department of Community Health, School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
    Trop Med Int Health 16:280-9. 2011

Detail Information

Publications7

  1. ncbi Duration of protection against malaria and anaemia provided by intermittent preventive treatment in infants in Navrongo, Ghana
    Matthew Cairns
    Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 3:e2227. 2008
    ..This study investigated how the protective efficacy of IPTi against malaria and anaemia changes over time...
  2. ncbi Mode of action and choice of antimalarial drugs for intermittent preventive treatment in infants
    Matthew Cairns
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
    Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 103:1199-201. 2009
    ..However, because of concerns about development of drug resistance, new combinations of long-acting drugs are urgently needed...
  3. ncbi Amodiaquine dosage and tolerability for intermittent preventive treatment to prevent malaria in children
    M Cairns
    Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother 54:1265-74. 2010
    ..Simple amendments to current AQ dosing schedules based on the child's age could substantially increase dosing accuracy and thus improve the tolerability of IPTc using SP-amodiaquine in situations where weighing the child is impractical...
  4. ncbi Duration of protection against clinical malaria provided by three regimens of intermittent preventive treatment in Tanzanian infants
    Matthew Cairns
    Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 5:e9467. 2010
    ..This study investigated how protection against malaria given by SP, chlorproguanil-dapsone (CD) and mefloquine (MQ), varied with time since administration of IPTi...
  5. ncbi Modelling the protective efficacy of alternative delivery schedules for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants and children
    Matthew Cairns
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 6:e18947. 2011
    ..However, improvements to this approach may be possible where malaria transmission is seasonal, or where the malaria burden lies mainly outside infancy...
  6. ncbi Protective efficacy of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants (IPTi) using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and parasite resistance
    Jamie T Griffin
    MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 5:e12618. 2010
    ..Here we examine the relationship between the protective efficacy of SP-IPTi and measures of SP resistance...
  7. ncbi The clinical impact of combining intermittent preventive treatment with home management of malaria in children aged below 5 years: cluster randomised trial
    Harry Tagbor
    Department of Community Health, School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
    Trop Med Int Health 16:280-9. 2011
    ..To investigate the impact of seasonal intermittent preventive treatment (IPTc) on malaria-related morbidity in children <5 years of age who already had access to home-based management of malaria (HMM) for presumptive treatment of fevers...