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  • noun A medication used in the treatment of malaria and Pneumocystis pneumonia.

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  • noun synthetic antimalarial drug

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Examples

  • Nonetheless, despite its awareness of the disorder, the Army's treatment regimen for G6PD-deficient soldiers was merely the issuance of "alert tags" warning that the anti-malarial drug primaquine should not be administered and that similar hemolysis-triggering drugs should be administered with caution.

    Randall Amster: The Most Common Disease You've Never Heard Of Randall Amster 2010

  • Nonetheless, despite its awareness of the disorder, the Army's treatment regimen for G6PD-deficient soldiers was merely the issuance of "alert tags" warning that the anti-malarial drug primaquine should not be administered and that similar hemolysis-triggering drugs should be administered with caution.

    Randall Amster: The Most Common Disease You've Never Heard Of Randall Amster 2010

  • Nonetheless, despite its awareness of the disorder, the Army's treatment regimen for G6PD-deficient soldiers was merely the issuance of "alert tags" warning that the anti-malarial drug primaquine should not be administered and that similar hemolysis-triggering drugs should be administered with caution.

    Randall Amster: The Most Common Disease You've Never Heard Of 2009

  • Patients should not take primaquine until a screening test has excluded glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency.

    Malaria 2008

  • In addition, primaquine is active against the dormant parasite liver forms (hypnozoites) and prevents relapses.

    Malaria 2008

  • Side effects: Pregnant women should not take primaquine.

    Chapter 31 1993

  • Often comes in: tablets of 26.3 mg. of primaquine phosphate, which contains 15 mg. of primaquine base.

    Chapter 31 1993

  • Malaria drugs like artemisinin combination therapies ACTs used for falciparum infections can help treat acute bloodstream vivax infections, but only one drug -- primaquine -- can clear vivax parasites from the liver and provide a long-term cure.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • The diagnosis of life-threatening P. falciparum malaria may be missed (two-band Pv-pLDH RDT), or the patient may be treated incorrectly with primaquine

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Jessica Maltha 2010

  • Patients should not take primaquine until a screening test has excluded glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency.

    Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth 2010

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