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Comparison of prescribing restrictions for primaquine and tafenoquine under three different scenarios broken down by gender.

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posted on 2018-04-20, 17:33 authored by James Watson, Walter R. J. Taylor, Germana Bancone, Cindy S. Chu, Podjanee Jittamala, Nicholas J. White

This assumes that 10% of heterozygous females would test deficient at screens with a 30% activity threshold, and 70% of heterozygous females and 5% of all wild type individuals at a 70% threshold. Top left: current proportions of individuals ineligible for radical cure for vivax malaria following G6PD deficiency testing; top right: proportions of individuals ineligible for radical cure if primaquine and tafenoquine could be given to females breast-feeding infants older than 1 month; bottom left: proportions of individuals ineligible for radical cure if primaquine could be given to G6PD deficient persons.

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