Single low-dose primaquine for blocking transmission of Plasmodium falciparum malaria - a proposed model-derived age-based regimen for sub-Saharan Africa

• Main Authors: W. Robert Taylor, Htee Khu Naw, Kathryn Maitland, Thomas N. Williams, Melissa Kapulu, Umberto D'Alessandro, James A. Berkley, Philip Bejon, Joseph Okebe, Jane Achan, Alfred Ngwa Amambua, Muna Affara, Davis Nwakanma, Jean Pierre van Geertruyden, Muhindo Mavoko, Pascal Lutumba, Junior Matangila, Philipe Brasseur, Patrice Piola, Rindra Randremanana, Estrella Lasry, Caterina Fanello, Marie Onyamboko, Birgit Schramm, Zolia Yah, Joel Jones, Rick M. Fairhurst, Mahamadou Diakite, Grace Malenga, Malcolm Molyneux, Claude Rwagacondo, Charles Obonyo, Endalamaw Gadisa, Abraham Aseffa, Mores Loolpapit, Marie Claire Henry, Grant Dorsey, Chandy John, Sodiomon B. Sirima, Karen I. Barnes, Peter Kremsner, Nicholas P. Day, Nicholas J. White, Mavuto Mukaka
• Other Authors: Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales émergentes
• Format: Article
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/46997
• Institution: Mahidol University

© 2018 The Author(s). Background: In 2012, the World Health Organization recommended blocking the transmission of Plasmodium falciparum with single low-dose primaquine (SLDPQ, target dose 0.25 mg base/kg body weight), without testing for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PDd), when tre...