Each 26.3mg tablet of primaquine phosphate is equivalent to 15mg primaquine base. The dosage may vary according to local or regional recommendations. a) For preventing relapses of malaria: ...

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More patients randomized to receive a higher dose of the antiparasitic primaquine (7.0 mg/kg over 14 days) did not experience a relapse in P. vivax malaria after 168 days (86%, 95% CI 76-92 ...

The hypnozoite form of Plasmodium vivax malaria can lead to recrudescent infection months after primary infection. Primaquine is used as prophylaxis to prevent such relapses. In this report, a ...

The main message of the new article, lead author Nathália N. Chamma-Siqueira, MSc, told Medscape Medical News, is that "a higher dose of primaquine has a greater efficacy than a low dose of ...

A single dose of primaquine is thought to stop people with P. falciparum malaria infecting mosquitoes, which could help bring down malaria transmission. In this Cochrane Review update prepared by ...

Primaquine should be the drug of choice for chemoprophylaxis for two malaria-causing pathogens in areas where they co-circulate, according to researchers. Other drugs were less effective ...

Malaria relapse rates in the Amazon River area are identical with either 7 or 14 days of primaquine plus chloroquine therapy; a 5-day course is also effective, but relapse rates are higher.

A single dose of primaquine is thought to stop people with P. falciparum malaria infecting mosquitoes, which could help bring down malaria transmission. In this Cochrane Review update co-ordinated ...