Subdoses of primaquine in overweight patients and malaria vivax relapses: report of two cases in the Federal District, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Luz, Francisco das Chagas de Oliveira¹  Deckers, Fernando Augusto Lopes¹  Tauil, Pedro Luiz¹  Federal University of Brasilia, Brasilia¹  Santos, João Barberino¹ 

关键词: Vivax malaria;    Primaquine;    Relapses;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0037-86822010000600033

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

【 摘 要 】

Two cases of malaria by Plasmodium vivax relapsed after treatment with drugs in doses recommended by the Ministry of Health are presented. Both patients were overweight and were followed in the Federal District, an area considered free from vector transmission of the disease. Radical cure was obtained after medication with the same drugs in weight proportional doses.

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