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Genotypes and phenotypes of G6PD deficiency among Indonesian females across diagnostic thresholds of G6PD activity guiding safe primaquine therapy of latent malaria.

Ari Winasti SatyagrahaArkasha SadhewaLydia Visita PanggaloDecy SubektiIqbal ElyazarSaraswati SoebiantoNunung MahpudAlida Rosita HarahapJ Kevin Baird
Published in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2021)
In this population, most G6PD heterozygosity in females occurred between 30% and 70% of normal (69·3%; 183/264). The prevalence of females at risk of G6PD misclassification as normal by qualitative screening was 9·5% (183/1928). Qualitative G6PD screening prior to 8-aminoquinoline therapies against P. vivax may leave one in ten females at risk of hemolytic crisis, which may be remedied by point-of-care quantitative tests.
Keyphrases
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