Assessment of Recovery Time, Worsening, and Death among Inpatients and Outpatients with COVID-19, Treated with Hydroxychloroquine or Chloroquine plus Azithromycin Combination in Burkina Faso
Toussaint Rouamba, Esperance Ouédraogo, Houreratou Barry, Nobila Valentin Yaméogo, Apoline Sondo, Rainatou Boly, Jacques Zoungrana, Abdoul Risgou Ouédraogo, Marc Christian Tahita, Armel Poda, Arnaud Eric Diendéré, Abdoul-Salam Ouedraogo, Innocent Valea, Isidore Traoré, Zekiba Tarnagda, Maxime K Drabo, Halidou Tinto
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2022.02.034
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Ousseni, Dr SOW Abobacar, Dr Seydou ZIDA, Mr BANHORO Honore Achille). The Equipe mobile team (Dr KABORE Mikaila, Dr NANA Harouna). The Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro (Mr HIEN S. Franck). The Centre Muraz/Institut National de Santé Publique team (ZOMA Aristide). Service des maladies infectieuses team (BOLY Raïnatou). Médecine Interne, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sourou Sanon, Bobo-Dioulasso team (NIGNAN Issan Urbain). Service de pneumologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sourou Sanon, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso (OUEDRAOGO Patricia Roseline).
Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Ethics approval This study was approved by the National Ethics Committee (Deliberation number: 2020-000101/MS/MESRSI/CERS) and was registered on ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04445441).
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