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Infectious Diseases Group (117)

MALARIA (46)

Prevention (15)

Vaccines (4)

Vaccines for preventing malaria (withdrawn)

Vaccines for preventing malaria (SPf66)

Vaccines for preventing malaria (blood-stage)

Vaccines for preventing malaria (pre-erythrocytic)

Vector Control (4)

Electronic mosquito repellents for preventing mosquito bites and malaria infection

Indoor residual spraying for preventing malaria (protocol stage)

Insecticide-treated bed nets and curtains for preventing malaria

Insecticide-treated nets for preventing malaria in pregnancy

Drugs for prevention for people living in endemic areas (4)

Chemoprophylaxis and intermittent treatment for preventing malaria in children

Drugs for preventing malaria in pregnant women

Intermittent preventive treatment regimens for malaria in HIV-positive pregnant women (protocol stage)

Malaria chemoprophylaxis in sickle cell disease

Drugs for prevention for travellers (3)

Drugs for preventing malaria in travellers (protocol stage)

Mefloquine for preventing malaria in non-immune adult travellers (withdrawn)

Tafenoquine for preventing malaria (protocol stage)

Treatment (30)

Treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria (17)

Single agent (3)

Amodiaquine for treating malaria

Azithromycin for treating uncomplicated malaria (protocol stage)

Pyronaridine for treating uncomplicated malaria (protocol stage)

Combined treatment, non-artemisinin based (5)

Atovaquone-proguanil for treating uncomplicated malaria

Chloroquine or amodiaquine combined with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for treating uncomplicated malaria

Chlorproguanil-dapsone for treating uncomplicated malaria

Clindamycin plus quinine for treating uncomplicated malaria (protocol stage)

Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus mefloquine versus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine alone for treating uncomplicated falciparum malaria (protocol stage)

Combined treatment, artemisinin based (8)

Amodiaquine plus artesunate for treating uncomplicated malaria (protocol stage) (withdrawn)

Artemether-lumefantrine (four-dose regimen) for treating uncomplicated falciparum malaria

Artemether-lumefantrine (six-dose regimen) for treating uncomplicated falciparum malaria

Artemether-lumefantrine for treating uncomplicated falciparum malaria (withdrawn)

Artemisinin derivatives for treating severe malaria

Artemisinin derivatives for treating uncomplicated malaria

Artesunate plus mefloquine versus mefloquine for treating uncomplicated malaria

Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus artesunate versus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus amodiaquine for treating uncomplicated malaria

Drugs for treatment in special groups (1)

Drugs for treating uncomplicated malaria in pregnant women

Treatment of vivax malaria (1)

Primaquine for preventing relapses in people with Plasmodium vivax malaria

Treatment of severe malaria (5)

Artemisinin derivatives for treating severe malaria

Artesunate versus quinine for treating severe malaria

High first dose quinine regimen for treating severe malaria

Intramuscular arteether for treating severe malaria

Intrarectal quinine for treating Plasmodium falciparum malaria

Adjunctive treatment of severe malaria (5)

Blood transfusion for treating malarial anaemia

Iron-chelating agents for treating malaria

Mannitol and other osmotic diuretics as adjuncts for treating cerebral malaria

Routine anticonvulsants for treating cerebral malaria

Steroids for treating cerebral malaria

Symptomatic treatment (2)

Antipyretic measures for treating fever in malaria

Routine iron supplementation for preventing or treating iron-deficiency anaemia in children in malaria-endemic areas (protocol stage)

Delivery strategies (1)

Unit-dose packaged drugs for treating malaria

TUBERCULOSIS (19)

Prevention (3)

Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine for preventing tuberculosis (protocol stage)

Isoniazid for preventing tuberculosis in non-HIV infected persons

Mycobacterium vaccae immunotherapy for treating tuberculosis

Treatment (12)

Drugs (9)

Adjunctive steroid therapy for managing tuberculosis (protocol stage)

Corticosteroids for managing tuberculous meningitis

Corticosteroids for tuberculous pleurisy

Drugs for preventing tuberculosis in people at risk of multiple-drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis

Fluoroquinolones for treating tuberculosis

Fully intermittent dosing with drugs for treating tuberculosis in adults

Interventions for treating tuberculous pericarditis

Regimens of less than six months for treating tuberculosis

Rifabutin for treating pulmonary tuberculosis

Other (3)

Low level laser therapy for treating tuberculosis

Nutritional supplements for people being treated for active tuberculosis (protocol stage)

Routine surgery in addition to chemotherapy for treating spinal tuberculosis

Delivery Strategies (4)

Directly observed therapy for treating tuberculosis

Education and counselling for promoting adherence to the treatment of active tuberculosis (protocol stage)

Interventions for promoting adherence to tuberculosis management (withdrawn)

Reminder systems and late patient tracers in the diagnosis and management of tuberculosis (protocol stage)

DIARRHOEAL INFECTIONS (20)

Principles of prevention and management (14)

Prevention (3)

Hand washing for preventing diarrhoea

Interventions to improve excreta disposal for preventing diarrhoea (protocol stage)

Interventions to improve water quality for preventing diarrhoea

Rehydration (4)

Glucose polymer ORS (protocol stage)

Oral versus intravenous rehydration for treating dehydration due to gastroenteritis in children

Reduced osmolarity oral rehydration solution for treating dehydration caused by acute diarrhoea in children

Rice-based oral rehydration solution for treating diarrhoea (withdrawn)

Anti-infective treatment (3)

Antiamoebic drugs for treating amoebic colitis (protocol stage)

Antibiotic treatment for travellers' diarrhoea

Probiotics for treating infectious diarrhoea

Management (4)

Antimotility drugs for managing acute diarrhoea in children (protocol stage) (withdrawn)

Early versus delayed refeeding for children with acute diarrhoea (protocol stage)

Lactose avoidance for acute diarrhoea in children less than five years (protocol stage)

Oral zinc for treating diarrhoea in children

Prevention and management of specific infections (6)

Cholera (2)

Reduced osmolarity oral rehydration solution for treating cholera

Vaccines for preventing cholera

Giardiasis (1)

Drugs for treating giardiasis (withdrawn)

Rotavirus (1)

Rotavirus vaccine for preventing diarrhoea

Salmonellosis (1)

Antibiotics for treating salmonella gut infections

Shigellosis (1)

Antibiotic therapy for Shigella dysentery (protocol stage)

NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES (6)

Human African Trypanosomiasis (1)

Chemotherapy of second-stage Human African trypanosomiasis (protocol stage)

Lymphatic filariasis (2)

Albendazole for lymphatic filariasis

Diethylcarbamazine (DEC)-medicated salt for community-based control of lymphatic filariasis

Schistosomiasis (2)

Drugs for treating urinary schistosomiasis

Interventions for treating schistosomiasis mansoni

Visceral Leishmaniasis (1)

Anti-leishmanial drugs for treating visceral leishmaniasis (protocol stage) (withdrawn)

OTHER (26)

Anthrax (2)

Vaccines for preventing anthrax (withdrawn)

Vaccines for preventing anthrax (protocol stage)

Brucellosis (1)

Antibiotics for treating human brucellosis (protocol stage)

Cysticercosis (2)

Anthelmintics for people with neurocysticercosis (protocol stage)

Drugs for treating neurocysticercosis (tapeworm infection of the brain) (withdrawn)

Dengue (2)

Prevention (1)

Vaccines for preventing dengue infection (protocol stage)

Treatment (1)

Corticosteroids for treating dengue shock syndrome

Fever management (3)

Drugs and other methods for managing fever in children (protocol stage)

Paracetamol for treating fever in children

Physical methods for treating fever in children

Headlice (1)

Interventions for treating headlice (withdrawn)

Helminths, soil transmitted (1)

Deworming drugs for treating soil-transmitted intestinal worms in children: effects on growth and school performance

Japanese encephalitis (1)

Vaccines for preventing Japanese encephalitis

Melioidosis (1)

Interventions for treating melioidosis

Paracoccidioidomycosis (1)

Drugs for treating paracoccidioidomycosis

Paraveterinary services impact on human health (1)

Community animal health services for improving household wealth and health status of low income farmers

Plague (1)

Vaccines for preventing plague

Scabies (1)

Interventions for treating scabies

Scrub typhus (1)

Antibiotics for treating scrub typhus

Smallpox (1)

Vaccines for preventing smallpox

Snake bites (1)

Interventions for preventing reactions to snake antivenom

Tick-borne encephalitis (1)

Vaccines for preventing tick-borne encephalitis

Trichomoniasis (1)

Interventions for treating trichomoniasis in women

Typhoid and paratyphoid fever (enteric fever) (3)

Azithromycin for treating uncomplicated typhoid and paratyphoid fever (enteric fever) (protocol stage)

Fluoroquinolones for treating typhoid and paratyphoid fever (enteric fever)

Vaccines for preventing typhoid fever

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