Journal article
Single low-dose primaquine for blocking transmission of Plasmodium falciparum malaria - a proposed model-derived age-based regimen for sub-Saharan Africa.
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Background
In 2012, the World Health Organization recommended blocking the transmission of Plasmodium falciparum with single low-dose primaquine (SLDPQ, target dose 0.25 mg base/kg body weight), without testing for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PDd), when treating patients with uncomplicated falciparum malaria. We sought to develop an age-based SLDPQ regimen that would be suitable for sub-Saharan Africa.
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Using data on the anti-infectivity...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
National Institutes of Health
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 11
- Publication date:
- 2018-01-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-12-12
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1741-7015
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:821205
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uuid:8bc0fef9-556d-436c-9fba-f0680818c39c
- Local pid:
- pubs:821205
- Source identifiers:
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821205
- Deposit date:
- 2018-01-26
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- Copyright holder:
- White et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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