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SUBMITTER: Kim YK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3062443 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20110401 4
Chemoprophylaxis with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and primaquine has been used in the Republic of Korea (ROK) Army since 1997. It may facilitate the development of chloroquine (CQ)-resistant strains of Plasmodium vivax. We investigated the therapeutic efficacy of HCQ and the pvmdr1 gene polymorphisms in P. vivax. From June to September 2006, 102 soldiers with vivax malaria near the demilitarized zone in Gyeonggi-do, ROK, were enrolled in the study. We determined the status of compliance of chemopro ...[more]