The prevalence of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in Gambian school children

BACKGROUND: Primaquine, the only available drug effective against Plasmodium falciparum sexual stages, induces also a dose-dependent haemolysis, especially in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficient (G6PDd) individuals. Therefore, it is important to determine the prevalence of this deficiency in...

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Autores principales: Okebe, Joseph, Amambua-Ngwa, Alfred, Parr, Jason, Nishimura, Sei, Daswani, Melissa, Takem, Ebako N, Affara, Muna, Ceesay, Serign J, Nwakanma, Davis, D’Alessandro, Umberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3999733/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24742291
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-148

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3999733/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24742291
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-148

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