Implications of current therapeutic restrictions for primaquine and tafenoquine in the radical cure of vivax malaria

James Watson; Walter R. J. Taylor; Germana Bancone; Cindy S. Chu; Podjanee Jittamala; Nicholas J. White

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0006440

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Implications of current therapeutic restrictions for primaquine and tafenoquine in the radical cure of vivax malaria

James Watson ,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: james@tropmedres.ac

Affiliations Mahidol Oxford Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, United kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5524-0325

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Walter R. J. Taylor,

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Mahidol Oxford Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, United kingdom
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Germana Bancone,

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, United kingdom, Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, Thailand
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Cindy S. Chu,

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, United kingdom, Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, Thailand
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Podjanee Jittamala,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Mahidol Oxford Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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Nicholas J. White

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Mahidol Oxford Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, United kingdom
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Implications of current therapeutic restrictions for primaquine and tafenoquine in the radical cure of vivax malaria

James Watson,
Walter R. J. Taylor,
Germana Bancone,
Cindy S. Chu,
Podjanee Jittamala,
Nicholas J. White

Published: April 20, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006440

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