Use of primaquine and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency testing: divergent policies and practices in malaria endemic countries
<p>Primaquine is the only available antimalarial drug which 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 which rapidly sterilises mature P. falciparum gam...
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Public Library of Science
2018
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