Journal article
Randomized, parallel placebo-controlled trial of primaquine for malaria prophylaxis in Papua, Indonesia.
- Abstract:
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Malaria causes illness or death in unprotected travelers. Primaquine prevents malaria by attacking liver-stage parasites, a property distinguishing it from most chemoprophylactics and obviating 4-week postexposure dosing. A daily adult regimen of 30 mg primaquine prevented malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax for 20 weeks in 95 of 97 glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD)-normal Javanese transmigrants in Papua, Indonesia. In comparison, 37 of 149 subjects taking placebo in a...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 12
- Pages:
- 1990-1997
- Publication date:
- 2001-12-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1537-6591
- ISSN:
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1058-4838
- Source identifiers:
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81691
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:81691
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- pubs:81691
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2001
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