Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A medication used in the treatment of malaria and Pneumocystis pneumonia.
WordNet 3.0
- n. synthetic antimalarial drug
Examples
“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.”
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“In addition, primaquine is active against the dormant parasite liver forms (hypnozoites) and prevents relapses.”
“Side effects: Pregnant women should not take primaquine.”
“Often comes in: tablets of 26.3 mg. of primaquine phosphate, which contains 15 mg. of primaquine base.”
“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.”
“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”
“Patients should not take primaquine until a screening test has excluded glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency.”
“A combination of drugs from the artemisinin family are generally used to tackle P falciparum while primaquine is the only registered drug available to combat P vivax.”
“Most cases of infection were uncomplicated and easily treated with chloroquine and primaquine, two commonly used anti-malarial drugs.”
“In the absence of primaquine treatment, it was shown that P. vivax relapses mainly occurred during the first three months after the first attack.”
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
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