Anti-malarial drug effects on parasite dynamics in vivax malaria
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, artemisinin...
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Language: | English |
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BioMed Central
2021
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