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Barriers to prompt and effective treatment of malaria in northern Sri Lanka. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: For the past 18 years, northern Sri Lanka has been affected by armed ethnic conflict. This has had a heavy impact on displacement of civilians, health delivery services, number of health professionals in the area and infrastructure. The north
Abeyasinghe, R +2 more
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Aims Resistance to the artemisinins and the artemisinin‐based combination therapy (ACT) partner drugs has developed in Southeast Asia, and artemisinin resistance has also emerged in eastern Africa. Triple ACTs (triple artemisinin‐based combination therapies, TACT), consisting of two partner drugs with different mechanisms of action and similar ...
Junjie Ding +24 more
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Malaria in Nonimmune Travelers [PDF]
Background: With the current increase of international travel to tropical endemic areas, the incidence of malaria being imported into nonendemic countries has increased significantly.
Jelinek, Thomas +2 more
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Background Effective malaria control has successfully reduced the malaria burden in many countries, but to eliminate malaria, these countries will need to further improve their control efforts.
Hungerford Laura L +8 more
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Tackling resistance: Emerging antimalarials and new parasite targets in the era of elimination [version 1; referees: 2 approved] [PDF]
Malaria remains a significant contributor to global human mortality, and roughly half the world’s population is at risk for infection with Plasmodium spp. parasites.
Matthews, Emily S, Odom John, Audrey R
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Novel nitro‐substituted diaryl 1,3,4‐ and 1,2,4‐oxadiazoles were synthesised via molecular hybridisation of bioactive heterocycles. Selected derivatives exhibited potent antimicrobial activity, including against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Staphylococcus aureus, and cholinesterase inhibitory activity, with promising selectivity.
Enikő Šikorová +9 more
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The reality of using primaquine
Background Primaquine is currently the only medication used for radical cure of Plasmodium vivax infection. Unfortunately, its use is not without risk. Patients with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency have an increased susceptibility to ...
Bancone Germana +2 more
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Efficacy and safety of primaquine and methylene blue for prevention of Plasmodium falciparum transmission in Mali: a phase 2, single-blind, randomised controlled trial. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Primaquine and methylene blue are gametocytocidal compounds that could prevent Plasmodium falciparum transmission to mosquitoes. We aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of primaquine and methylene blue in preventing human to mosquito ...
Bousema, Teun +22 more
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Pharmacogenomics in clinical practice: Biomarker information in Brazilian drug labels
This review examines the PGx annotations in package inserts (bulas in Brazilian Portuguese) approved by ANVISA, the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency, for 19 gene–drug pairs with strong or moderate recommendations for initial dosing alteration in the CPIC (Clinical Pharmacogenetic Implementation Consortion) guidelines and PGx testing required or ...
Guilherme Suarez‐Kurtz
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This study evaluated pharmacogenomic (PGx) calling from whole‐exome sequencing (WES) in 3562 Taiwanese individuals. Fourteen pharmacogenes were reliably identified, with each person carrying an average of ~2.4 actionable phenotypes. The high actionable frequencies of G6PD deficiency and HLA‐B*58:01 highlight ethnic differences and support WES as a ...
Hsu‐Heng Lin +9 more
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