Primaquine should be the drug of choice for chemoprophylaxis for two malaria-causing pathogens in areas where they co-circulate, according to researchers. Other drugs were less effective, particularly ...

Fryauff DJ, Baird JK, Basri H, et al. Randomized placebo-controlled trial of primaquine for prophylaxis of falciparum and vivax malaria. Lancet 1995;346:1190-3. Fryauff DJ, Richards AL, Baird JK, et ...

A higher dose of a primaquine-based regimen was more effective at preventing relapses of Plasmodium vivax malaria than the currently recommended regimen, a randomized trial found. More patients ...

WHO has approved the first-ever paediatric primaquine tablets for malaria treatment, a breakthrough moment for malaria elimination. Developed by Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) and Fosun Pharma ...

How do you treat a patient with P vivax malaria who has to return to an endemic area? Is it logical to avoid primaquine? Some authors state that it should not be given because the persistence of ...

Almost all the drugs that are widely used today against Plasmodium spp., the causative agent of malaria, target the asexual blood stages of the parasite. Widespread drug resistance severely restricts ...

A single dose of primaquine is thought to stop people with P. falciparum malaria infecting mosquitoes, which could help bring down malaria transmission. Recent data questions the practice. A single ...

The hypnozoite form of Plasmodium vivax malaria can lead to recrudescent infection months after primary infection. Primaquine is used as prophylaxis to prevent such relapses. In this report, a higher ...

Tampa, FL (April 24, 2019) - The University of South Florida has been awarded approximately $700,000 in initial funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of ...

A 28-year-old woman was admitted to hospital with chills, fever, headache, and fatigue. Physical examination and laboratory findings revealed that the patient was 20 weeks pregnant and had a urinary ...