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A pilot randomized controlled trial to compare the effectiveness of two 14-day primaquine regimens for the radical cure of vivax malaria in South India

BACKGROUND: Radical cure of Plasmodium vivax malaria requires treatment with a blood schizonticide and a hypnozoitocide (primaquine) to eradicate the dormant liver stages. There has been uncertainty about the operational effectiveness and optimum dosing of the currently recommended 14-day primaquine...

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Autores principales: Saravu, Kavitha, Tellapragada, Chaitanya, Kulavalli, Shrivathsa, Xavier, Wilbin, Umakanth, Shashikiran, Brahmarouphu, Gouthami, Srinivas, Navyasree Kola, Channabasavaiah, Jagadish Puralae, Bava, Anzil, Saadi, Abdul Vahab, Guddattu, Vasudev, Satyamoorthy, Kapaettu, Bhat, Krishnamurthy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6122616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30176897
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-018-2472-5