Primaquine for Plasmodium vivax malaria treatment

The main reason conventional primaquine regimens last 14 days is because this was the time taken to repatriate US military personnel by ship following active service in the Korean War.1Alving AS Hankey DD Coatney GR et al.Korean vivax malaria. II. Curative treatment with pamaquine and primaquine.Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1953; 2: 970-976Crossref Scopus (30) Google Scholar We therefore congratulate Walter Taylor and colleagues2Taylor WRJ Thriemer K von...