| 1. | Eradication of the liver stages is achieved by giving primaquine.
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| 2. | Like primaquine, tafenoquine causes hemolysis in people who are G6PD deficient.
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| 3. | Standard treatment is concurrent treatment with chloroquine and primaquine.
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| 4. | Pamaquine is more toxic and less efficacious than primaquine.
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| 5. | G6PD deficient persons are also sensitive to several drugs in addition to primaquine.
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| 6. | Like primaquine, tafenoquine causes hemolysis in people with G-6-P deficiency.
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| 7. | It languished, however, until the push for malaria elimination sparked new interest in primaquine alternatives.
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| 8. | Mass-treating populations with a primaquine can kill the hypnozoites, exempting those with G6PD deficiency.
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| 9. | He said they were now supplementing the drug with another, primaquine, hoping for a better response.
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| 10. | Pamaquine is therefore no longer used and the only drug currently recommended by the World Health Organization is primaquine.
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