Sunday 6 July 2014

Cochrane Review on effects of adding Primaquine to Prevent Malaria Transmission

Researchers conducted an independent review of the effects of adding a single dose of primaquine (PQ) to malaria treatment to prevent the transmission of the disease. The researchers were from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, hosted at LSTM. Mosquitoes become infected with emPlasmodium falciparum/em when they ingest gametocyte-stage parasites from an infected person's blood. PQ is an antimalarial drug that does not cure malaria illness, but is known ...

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