The patient recovered after outpatient treatment with mefloquine and
primaquine.
The other major step by the panel was to add
primaquine as a sixth option for primary prophylaxis, although it is a second-line drug because of its potentially serious adverse effects.
Classically, after ingestion of certain agents like sulfamides, antipyretics, nitrofurans and antimalarial medicines, like the
primaquine and chloroquine, the patient develops fever, black color urine, ictericia and anemia.
The original recommendation (2) remains unchanged: all refugees of Congolese origin with splenomegaly should receive presumptive treatment with
primaquine after arrival in the United States.
Clindamycin and
primaquine therapy for mild-to-moderate episodes of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in patients with AIDS: AIDS Clinical Trials Group 044.
Moll intensified control measures in the Bavaro Zone, which include 1) presumptive treatment of all construction and hotel workers by using directly observed therapy with chloroquine and
primaquine, and 2) mosquito control through residual and spatial insecticide spraying and application of larvicide to suspected breeding sites.
In industrialized countries, improved clinical and microbiological control after treatment and radical cure with
primaquine can be achieved for malaria.
Treatment of chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium vivax with chloroquine and
primaquine or halofantrine.
ovale were radically cured with chloroquine combined with
primaquine; and persons who had P.
He was advised to take
primaquine (15 mg/day for 2 wk), after confirming normal blood level of glucose-6 phosphate dehydogenase and discharged on Day 6.
She was prescribed chloroquine and
primaquine. One month later, the mother was interviewed in Spanish, her native language; she stated that she had malaria diagnosed 2 years earlier in Guatemala and was treated with an unknown therapy.