The clinical and public health problem of relapse despite primaquine therapy: case review of repeated relapses of Plasmodium vivax acquired in Papua New Guinea

Background Primaquine is the only drug available for preventing relapse following a primary attack by Plasmodium vivax malaria. This drug imposes several important problems: daily dosing over two weeks; toxicity in patients with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency; partner blood schi...
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Ingram, R Joan H [verfasserIn]

Crenna-Darusallam, Chelzie

Soebianto, Saraswati

Noviyanti, Rintis

Baird, J Kevin

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E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2014

Schlagwörter:

Relapse

Primaquine

Resistance

Tolerance

Compliance

Therapeutic failure

CYP2D6 polymorphism

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© Ingram et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2014. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (

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Enthalten in: Malaria journal - London : BioMed Central, 2002, 13(2014), 1 vom: 12. Dez.

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volume:13 ; year:2014 ; number:1 ; day:12 ; month:12

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DOI / URN:

10.1186/1475-2875-13-488

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SPR028635582

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