The risk of adverse clinical outcomes following treatment of Plasmodium vivax malaria with and without primaquine in Papua, Indonesia.

• Main Authors: Kamala Thriemer (Author), Jeanne-Rini Poespoprodjo (Author), Enny Kenangalem (Author), Nicholas M Douglas (Author), Paulus Sugiarto (Author), Nicholas M Anstey (Author), Julie Anne Simpson (Author), Ric N Price (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The widespread use of primaquine (PQ) radical cure for P. vivax, is constrained by concerns over its safety. We used routinely collected patient data to compare the overall morbidity and mortality in patients treated with and without PQ without prior testing of Glucose-6-Phosphate-Dehydrogenase (G6P...