Efficacy of a 14-day primaquine regimen in preventing relapses in patients with Plasmodium vivax malaria in Mumbai, India

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 438-440

  Rajgor, D D ^a   Gogtay, N J ^a   Kadam, V S ^a   Kamtekar, K D ^a   Dalvi, S S ^a   Chogle, A R ^b   Aigal, U ^b   Bichile, L S ^a   Kain, K C ^c   Kshirsagar, N A ^a  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

^b Kasturba Infectious Disease Hospital   (India)

^c TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antirelapse therapy; Efficacy; India; Malaria; Plasmodium vivax; Primaquine

Indexed keywords

PRIMAQUINE; TAFENOQUINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHRONOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REINFECTION; RELAPSE; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PRIMAQUINE; RECURRENCE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTOZOA;

EID: 20844440914     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(03)90082-4     Document Type: Article

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