Cargando…

Tafenoquine for preventing relapse in people with Plasmodium vivax malaria

BACKGROUND: Plasmodium vivax malaria is widespread, and the persistent liver stage causes relapse of the disease which contributes to continued P. vivax transmission. Primaquine is currently the only drug that cures the parasite liver stage, but requires 14 days to be effective and can cause haemoly...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Rajapakse, Senaka, Rodrigo, Chaturaka, Fernando, Sumadhya Deepika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2015
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4468925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25921416
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD010458.pub2