Using G6PD tests to enable the safe treatment of Plasmodium vivax infections with primaquine on the Thailand-Myanmar border: A cost-effectiveness analysis

BACKGROUND: Primaquine is the only licensed antimalarial for the radical cure of Plasmodium vivax infections. Many countries, however, do not administer primaquine due to fear of hemolysis in those with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency. In other settings, primaquine is given witho...

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Những tác giả chính: Devine, A, Parmiter, M, Chu, C, Bancone, G, Nosten, F, Price, R, Lubell, Y, Yeung, S
Định dạng: Journal article
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Public Library of Science 2017