Article
Genotypes and phenotypes of G6PD deficiency among Indonesian females across diagnostic thresholds of G6PD activity guiding safe primaquine therapy of latent malaria.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 1 Jul 2021
Satyagraha Ari Winasti, Sadhewa Arkasha, Panggalo Lydia Visita, Subekti Decy, Elyazar Iqbal, Soebianto Saraswati, Mahpud Nunung, Harahap Alida Rosita, Baird J Kevin
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Plasmodium vivax occurs as a latent infection of liver and a patent infection of red blood cells. Radical cure requires both blood schizontocidal and hypnozoitocidal chemotherapies. The hypnozoitocidal therapies available are primaquine and tafenoquine, 8-aminoquinoline drugs that can provoke threatening acute hemolytic anemia in patients having an X-linked G6PD-deficiency. Heterozygous females may...
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