Consideration of ethics in primaquine therapy against malaria transmission.
Millions of people receive primaquine against sexual plasmodia responsible for malaria transmission. These gametocytes cause no symptoms and do not threaten the host, but they infect mosquitoes and threaten the community. Primaquine causes hemolysis in the small minority of patients with glucose-6-p...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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