A comparison was made of vivax malaria relapse - - prevention treatments with primaquine 22.5 mg or 30 mg daily for 14 days - -based on 146 reports to the Australian Army Central Malaria Register.

A higher dose of primaquine was significantly more effective at preventing relapse of Plasmodium vivax malaria than a smaller dose, according to study findings published in The New England Journal ...

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 ...

A higher dose of a primaquine-based regimen was more effective at preventing relapses of Plasmodium vivax malaria than the currently recommended regimen, a randomized trial found. More patients ...

A short course of higher-dose primaquine was effective in preventing relapse of P vivax malaria.

Researchers have taken significant steps in understanding the way that the anti-malarial drug primaquine (PQ) works, which they hope will lead to the development of new, safer and more effective ...

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 is used to eradicate the hepatic or hypnozoite form of Plasmodium vivax that may lead to relapse of infection. Host genetic factors may play a role in the activity of primaquine therapy.

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 ...

A single dose of primaquine is thought to stop people with P. falciparum malaria infecting mosquitoes, which could help bring down malaria transmission. Recent data questions the practice.