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Strong gametocytocidal effect of methylene blue-based combination therapy against falciparum malaria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
With the availability of new preventive and curative interventions, global malaria control has been strengthened significantly in recent years. Drugs effective in reducing malaria gametocytaemia might contribute to local elimination and possible long ...
Coulibaly, Boubacar   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Pharmaceutical compounding of orphan active ingredients in Belgium : how community and hospital pharmacists can address the needs of patients with rare diseases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Background: Pharmaceutical compounding of orphan active ingredients can offer cost-effective treatment to patients when no other drug product is available for a rare disease or during periods of drug product shortages.
Boussery, Koen   +7 more
core   +2 more sources

Levels of primaquine and carboxyprimaquine in patients with malaria vivax from the Brazilian Amazon basin

open access: yesRevista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2018
In the last two years, a substantial increase in the number of malaria vivax cases has occurred in the Brazilian Amazon basin. The adequate exposure of hypnozoites to primaquine is a matter of interest as these dormant forms are responsible for the ...
Amanda Gabryelle Nunes Cardoso Mello   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mass campaigns with antimalarial drugs: a modelling comparison of artemether-lumefantrine and DHA-piperaquine with and without primaquine as tools for malaria control and elimination

open access: yes, 2015
Antimalarial drugs are a powerful tool for malaria control and elimination. Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) can reduce transmission when widely distributed in a campaign setting.
Eckhoff, Philip   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Declining Burden of Plasmodium vivax in a Population in Northwestern Thailand from 1995 to 2016 before Comprehensive Primaquine Prescription for Radical Cure. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
All Plasmodium cases have declined over the last decade in northwestern Thailand along the Myanmar border. During this time, Plasmodium vivax has replaced Plasmodium falciparum as the dominant species. The decline in P.
Carrara, Verena I   +6 more
core  

Artemisinin-based combination therapy successfully treated two hyperparasitaemic Plasmodium falciparum cases

open access: yesJournal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2023
Hyperparasitaemia is an important event in the cascade of Plasmodium falciparum severe malaria (SM), and may also lead to SM associated complications and death, if left untreated.
Benudhar Mukhi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reactivity of Blood Samples Spotted onto Filter Papers in the WST-8 Method for Screening of G6PD Deficiency. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Deficiency of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) causes acute hemolytic anemia triggered by oxidative drugs such as primaquine. It is therefore essential in malaria-endemic areas for malaria patients to be confirmed for their G6PD activity before ...
Arai, Meiji   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Evaluation of the Diagnostic Accuracy of the Quantitative Point‐of‐Care SD Biosensor Standard G6PD Test for Assessment of G6PD Deficiency in Infectious Diseases

open access: yesInternational Journal of Laboratory Hematology, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 440-446, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Background G6PD deficiency affects about 500 million people worldwide and is prevalent in many malaria‐endemic settings. People with G6PD deficiency are at risk of hemolysis when exposed to certain medications, including 8‐aminoquinoline drugs used to treat Plasmodium vivax malaria.
Flavia Regina Medeiros da Silva   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Taking Drugs to Help Others [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Every day the news shows us provoking stories about what's going on in the world, about events which raise moral questions and problems. In Philosophers Take On the World a team of philosophers get to grips with a variety of these controversial issues ...
Douglas, Thomas
core  

Costs Associated with Malaria in Pregnancy in the Brazilian Amazon, a Low Endemic Area Where Plasmodium vivax Predominates. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
BACKGROUND: Information on costs associated with malaria in pregnancy (MiP) in low transmission areas where Plasmodium vivax predominates is so far missing. This study estimates health system and patient costs of MiP in the Brazilian Amazon.
Bardají, A   +7 more
core   +4 more sources

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