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Primaquine administration after falciparum malaria treatment in malaria hypoendemic areas with high incidence of falciparum and vivax mixed infection: Pros and cons

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2010-01-01

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17380006
00234001

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10.3347/kjp.2010.48.2.175

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2-s2.0-77954435375

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Mahidol University

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Bibliographic Citation

Korean Journal of Parasitology. Vol.48, No.2 (2010), 175-177

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Polrat Wilairatana, Noppadon Tangpukdee, Shigeyuki Kano, Srivicha Krudsood Primaquine administration after falciparum malaria treatment in malaria hypoendemic areas with high incidence of falciparum and vivax mixed infection: Pros and cons. Korean Journal of Parasitology. Vol.48, No.2 (2010), 175-177. doi:10.3347/kjp.2010.48.2.175 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/29282

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Primaquine administration after falciparum malaria treatment in malaria hypoendemic areas with high incidence of falciparum and vivax mixed infection: Pros and cons

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Polrat Wilairatana
 Noppadon Tangpukdee
 Shigeyuki Kano
 Srivicha Krudsood

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Mahidol University
 National Center for Global Health and Medicine

Abstract

Mixed infections of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax is high (~30%) in some malaria hypoendemic areas where the patients present with P. falciparum malaria diagnosed by microscopy. Conventional treatment of P. falciparum with concurrent chloroquine and 14 days of primaquine for all falciparum malaria patients may be useful in areas where mixed falciparum and vivax infections are high and common and also with mild or moderate G6PD deficiency in the population even with or without subpatent vivax mixed infection. It will be possibly cost-effective to reduce subsequent vivax illness if the patients have mixed vivax infection. Further study to prove this hypothesis may be warranted.

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Immunology and Microbiology
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