Single dose primaquine at 0.4 to 0.5 mg/kg vs no primaquine, with artemisinin partner,
Participants infectious at day 8 · adults and children with malaria being treated with artemisinin combination treatment
Single dose primaquine at 0.4 to 0.5 mg/kg may leads to lower participants infectious at day 3‐4 compared with no primaquine, with artemisinin partner, (low certainty).
2 findings from 1 review
- Primaquine or other 8‐aminoquinolines for reducing Plasmodium falciparum transmission 2018 · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyRR 0.13 [0.02, 0.94]3 studies · 109 participantsLow
- Primaquine or other 8‐aminoquinolines for reducing Plasmodium falciparum transmission 2018 · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyRR 0.33 [0.07, 1.57]4 studies · 246 participantsLow