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Speciality Spotlight
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New Antimalarial
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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.