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Safety of single low-dose primaquine in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficient falciparum-infected African males: Two open-label, randomized, safety trials

BACKGROUND: Primaquine (PQ) actively clears mature Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes but in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficient (G6PDd) individuals can cause hemolysis. We assessed the safety of low-dose PQ in combination with artemether-lumefantrine (AL) or dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (D...

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Autores principales: Bastiaens, Guido J. H., Tiono, Alfred B., Okebe, Joseph, Pett, Helmi E., Coulibaly, Sam A., Gonçalves, Bronner P., Affara, Muna, Ouédraogo, Alphonse, Bougouma, Edith C., Sanou, Guillaume S., Nébié, Issa, Bradley, John, Lanke, Kjerstin H. W., Niemi, Mikko, Sirima, Sodiomon B., d’Alessandro, Umberto, Bousema, Teun, Drakeley, Chris
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5764271/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29324864
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190272