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Use of primaquine and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency testing: Divergent policies and practices in malaria endemic countries

Primaquine is the only available antimalarial drug that kills dormant liver stages of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium ovale malarias and therefore prevents their relapse (‘radical cure’). It is also the only generally available antimalarial that rapidly sterilises mature P. falciparum gametocytes. R...

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Autores principales: Recht, Judith, Ashley, Elizabeth A., White, Nicholas J.
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/PMC5908060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29672516
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006230