Imported Tertian Malaria Resistant to Primaquine
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Imported Tertian Malaria Resistant to Primaquine
In Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium ovale malaria, some of the liver stage parasites remain dormant. The activation of these dormant forms (called hypnozoite) can give rise to relapse weeks, months or years after the initial infection. To prevent relapses, a course of primaquine may be given as terminal prophylaxis to patients. Different strains of Plasmodium vivax vary in their sensitivity to p...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1226-3303,2005-6648
DOI: 10.3904/kjim.1999.14.2.86