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G6PD Deficiency Prevalence and Estimates of Affected Populations in Malaria Endemic Countries: A Geostatistical Model-Based Map

BACKGROUND: Primaquine is a key drug for malaria elimination. In addition to being the only drug active against the dormant relapsing forms of Plasmodium vivax, primaquine is the sole effective treatment of infectious P. falciparum gametocytes, and may interrupt transmission and help contain the spr...

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Autores principales: Howes, Rosalind E., Piel, Frédéric B., Patil, Anand P., Nyangiri, Oscar A., Gething, Peter W., Dewi, Mewahyu, Hogg, Mariana M., Battle, Katherine E., Padilla, Carmencita D., Baird, J. Kevin, Hay, Simon I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3496665/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23152723
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001339