Plasmodium vivax malaria elimination: should innovative ideas from the past be revisited?
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz
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109(5): 522-524, 19/08/2014.
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ABSTRACT
In the 1950s, the strategy of adding chloroquine to food salt as a prophylaxis against malaria was considered to be a successful tool. However, with the development of Plasmodium resistance in the Brazilian Amazon, this control strategy was abandoned. More than 50 years later, asexual stage resistance can be avoided by screening for antimalarial drugs that have a selective action against gametocytes, thus old prophylactic measures can be revisited. The efficacy of the old methods should be tested as complementary tools for the elimination of malaria.
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Asunto principal:
Plasmodium vivax
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Primaquina
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Cloroquina
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Malaria Vivax
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Antimaláricos
Límite:
Humanos
País/Región como asunto:
America del Sur
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Brasil
Idioma:
Inglés
Revista:
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz
Asunto de la revista:
Medicina Tropical
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Parasitología
Año:
2014
Tipo del documento:
Artículo
País de afiliación:
Brasil
Institución/País de afiliación:
Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr Heitor Vieira Dourado/BR
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