G6PD Deficiency at Sumba in Eastern Indonesia Is Prevalent, Diverse and Severe: Implications for Primaquine Therapy against Relapsing Vivax Malaria

Safe treatment of Plasmodium vivax requires diagnosis of both the infection and status of erythrocytic glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) activity because hypnozoitocidal therapy against relapse requires primaquine, which causes a mild to severe acute hemolytic anemia in G6PD deficient patient...

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Autores principales: Satyagraha, Ari Winasti, Sadhewa, Arkasha, Baramuli, Vanessa, Elvira, Rosalie, Ridenour, Chase, Elyazar, Iqbal, Noviyanti, Rintis, Coutrier, Farah Novita, Harahap, Alida Roswita, Baird, J. Kevin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4351883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25746733
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003602

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