primaquine
IPA: prˈaɪmʌkwˈaɪn
noun
- (pharmacology) A synthetic compound derived from quinoline, used as a medication in the treatment of malaria and pneumocystis pneumonia.
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Examples of "primaquine" in Sentences
- It is closely related to primaquine.
- He stated it's typically Primaquine.
- Primaquine is not licensed for use in the UK.
- Side effects: Pregnant women should not take primaquine.
- It responds well to treatment with chloroquine and primaquine.
- Malarone and primaquine are the only causal prophylactics in current use.
- The study marked the first human test of the antimalarial drug primaquine.
- Standard treatment is concurrent treatment with chloroquine and primaquine.
- Primaquine is not licensed in the UK, but is available on a named patient basis.
- Often comes in: tablets of 26.3 mg. of primaquine phosphate, which contains 15 mg. of primaquine base.
- In addition, primaquine is active against the dormant parasite liver forms (hypnozoites) and prevents relapses.
- Patients should not take primaquine until a screening test has excluded glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency.
- The diagnosis of life-threatening P. falciparum malaria may be missed (two-band Pv-pLDH RDT), or the patient may be treated incorrectly with primaquine
- Malaria drugs like artemisinin combination therapies ACTs used for falciparum infections can help treat acute bloodstream vivax infections, but only one drug -- primaquine -- can clear vivax parasites from the liver and provide a long-term cure.
- Nonetheless, despite its awareness of the disorder, the Army's treatment regimen for G6PD-deficient soldiers was merely the issuance of "alert tags" warning that the anti-malarial drug primaquine should not be administered and that similar hemolysis-triggering drugs should be administered with caution.