Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention Therapy in Children Up To 9 Years of Age: Protocol for a Cluster-Randomized Trial Study

Mahamoudou Toure   ¹ , MSPH, MD, PhD ;   Jeffrey G Shaffer   ² , PhD ;   Daouda Sanogo   ¹ , MPH, MD ;   Soumba Keita   ¹ , MSc, PharmD ;   Moussa Keita   ¹ , MSc, PhD ;   Fousseyni Kane   ¹ , MSc, MD ;   Bourama Traore   ¹ , PharmD, MSc ;   Djeneba Dabitao   ¹ , PharmD, PhD ;   Aissata Kone   ³ , MPH, MD ;   Cheick Oumar Doumbia   ¹ , MPH, MD ;   Joseph Keating   ² , PhD ;   Joshua Yukich   ² , PhD ;   Helle H Hansson   ⁴ , PhD ;   Alyssa E Barry   ^{5, 6} , PhD ;   Mahamadou Diakité   ¹ , PharmD, DPhil ;   Michael Alifrangis   ⁴ , PhD ;   Seydou Doumbia   ¹ , MD, PhD

¹ University Clinical Research Center, Universite des Sciences, des Techniques et des Technologies, Bamako, Mali

² Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States

³ Mali National Malaria Control Program, Bamako, Mali

⁴ Center for Medical Parasitology, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

⁵ Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation (IMPACT) and School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, Melbourne, Australia

⁶ Life Sciences Discipline, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia