A new primaquine analogue, tafenoquine (WR 238605), for prophylaxis against Plasmodium falciparum malaria

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1968-1974

  Shanks, G Dennis ^a   Oloo, Aggrey J ^a   Aleman, Gladys M ^a   Ohrt, Colin ^b   Klotz, Francis W ^a   Braitman, David ^c   Horton, John ^d   Brueckner, Ralf ^b  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c US Army Medical Materiel Development Activity   (United States)

^d GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HALOFANTRINE; TAFENOQUINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GASTROENTERITIS; HEADACHE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MYALGIA; PARASITE CONTROL; PHARYNGITIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; SKIN DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINOQUINOLINES; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHEMOPREVENTION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035893187     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/324081     Document Type: Article

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