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SUBMITTER: Carter TE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4125271 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20140602 2
Haiti is one of two remaining malaria-endemic countries in the Caribbean. To decrease malaria transmission in Haiti, primaquine was recently added to the malaria treatment public health policy. One limitation of primaquine is that, at certain doses, primaquine can cause hemolytic anemia in individuals with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency (G6PDd). In this study, we genotyped two mutations (A376G and G202A), which confer the most common G6PDd variant in West African populations ...[more]