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- noun A
medication used in thetreatment ofmalaria and Pneumocystispneumonia .
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- noun synthetic antimalarial drug
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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Patients should not take primaquine until a screening test has excluded glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency.
Malaria 2008
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In addition, primaquine is active against the dormant parasite liver forms (hypnozoites) and prevents relapses.
Malaria 2008
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Side effects: Pregnant women should not take primaquine.
Chapter 31 1993
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Often comes in: tablets of 26.3 mg. of primaquine phosphate, which contains 15 mg. of primaquine base.
Chapter 31 1993
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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.
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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
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Patients should not take primaquine until a screening test has excluded glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency.
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