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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...
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 |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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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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