Population screening for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiencies in Isabel Province, Solomon Islands, using a modified enzyme assay on filter paper dried bloodspots

BACKGROUND: Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency poses a significant impediment to primaquine use for the elimination of liver stage infection with Plasmodium vivax and for gametocyte clearance, because of the risk of life-threatening haemolytic anaemia that can occur in G6PD deficient patie...

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Autores principales: Kuwahata, Melissa, Wijesinghe, Rushika, Ho, Mei-Fong, Pelecanos, Anita, Bobogare, Albino, Landry, Losi, Bugora, Hugo, Vallely, Andrew, McCarthy, James
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Methodology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2924349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20684792
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-223

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