Anti‐malarial drug effects on parasite dynamics in vivax malaria
Abstract Relapses of Plasmodium vivax malaria are prevented by 8-aminoquinolines. If hypnozoites survive, then the subsequent blood stage infections in early relapses (< 2 months) are suppressed by the slowly eliminated anti-malarial drugs used to treat the blood stage infection (chloroquine, art...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-03-01
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Series: | Malaria Journal |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03700-7 |