Speciality
Spotlight

       




 


Medicine


   

 




A
New Antimalarial

  

  • Talking
    Points,

    ‘Even
    with a dose of 62.5mg tafenoquine daily for 3 days,
    no reinfection occurred during the first 7 weeks.

         

    Tafenoquine,
    a new synthetic derivative of primaquine, retains
    the useful properties but has a much longer
    half-life. None
    of the volunteers who received doses of 125mg daily
    for 3 days became infected during the next 77 days.

       

 



 

           

Speciality Spotlight

       

 
Medicine
   

 

A New Antimalarial
  

  • Talking Points,
    ‘Even with a dose of 62.5mg tafenoquine daily for 3 days, no reinfection occurred during the first 7 weeks.
         
    Tafenoquine, a new synthetic derivative of primaquine, retains the useful properties but has a much longer half-life. None of the volunteers who received doses of 125mg daily for 3 days became infected during the next 77 days.
       

 

 

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