Aggressive antipyretics in central nervous system malaria: Study protocol of a randomized-controlled trial assessing antipyretic efficacy and parasite clearance effects (Malaria FEVER study)

• Moses B. Chilombe,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Blantyre Malaria Project, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0948-2670

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• Michael P. McDermott,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

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• Karl B. Seydel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Osteopathic Medical Specialties, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

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• Manoj Mathews,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University Teaching Hospitals Children’s Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Musaku Mwenechanya,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University Teaching Hospitals Children’s Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Gretchen L. Birbeck

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Gretchen_birbeck@urmc.rochester.edu

  Affiliations University Teaching Hospitals Children’s Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia, University of Zambia School of Medicine, Lusaka, Zambia, Department of Neurology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0735-3461

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