Assessment of Point-of-Care Diagnostics for G6PD Deficiency in Malaria Endemic Rural Eastern Indonesia.

• Main Authors: Ari W Satyagraha (Author), Arkasha Sadhewa (Author), Rosalie Elvira (Author), Iqbal Elyazar (Author), Denny Feriandika (Author), Ungke Antonjaya (Author), Damian Oyong (Author), Decy Subekti (Author), Ismail E Rozi (Author), Gonzalo J Domingo (Author), Alida R Harahap (Author), J Kevin Baird (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Patients infected by Plasmodium vivax or Plasmodium ovale suffer repeated clinical attacks without primaquine therapy against latent stages in liver. Primaquine causes seriously threatening acute hemolytic anemia in patients having inherited glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) defici...