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Diagnostic practices and treatment for p. vivax in the interethnic therapeutic encounter of South-Central Vietnam: a mixed-methods study
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Malaria elimination in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region is challenged by a rising proportion of malaria attributable to P. vivax. Primaquine (PQ) is effective in eliminating the parasite’s dormant liver stages and can prevent relapsing infections, but it induces severe haemolysis in patients with Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency, highlighting the importance of testing enzyme activity prior to treatment. A mixed-method study was conducted in south-central Vietnam to explore the...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- MDPI Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Pathogens Journal website
- Volume:
- 10
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 26
- Publication date:
- 2020-12-31
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-12-28
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- EISSN:
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2076-0817
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1155902
- Local pid:
- pubs:1155902
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- 2021-01-13
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- Nguyen et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- ©2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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