The risk of adverse clinical outcomes following treatment of Plasmodium vivax malaria with and without primaquine in Papua, Indonesia

The widespread use of primaquine (PQ) radical cure for P. vivax, is constrained by concerns over its safety. We used routinely collected patient data to compare the overall morbidity and mortality in patients treated with and without PQ without prior testing of Glucose-6-Phosphate-Dehydrogenase (G6P...

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Main Authors: Thriemer, K, Poespoprodjo, J-R, Kenangalem, E, Douglas, NM, Sugiarto, P, Anstey, NM, Simpson, JA, Price, RN
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2020