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Lancet Infect Dis
January 2025
Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, G5 Épidémiologie et Analyse des Maladies Infectieuses, Paris, France. Electronic address:
Background: Plasmodium vivax forms dormant liver stages (hypnozoites) that can reactivate weeks to months after primary infection. Radical cure requires a combination of antimalarial drugs to kill both the blood-stage and liver-stage parasites. Hypnozoiticidal efficacy of the liver-stage drugs primaquine and tafenoquine cannot be estimated directly because hypnozoites are undetectable.
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January 2025
Malaria Research Unit, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Background: The WHO malaria treatment guidelines recommend a total dose in the range of 3·5 to 7·0 mg/kg of primaquine to eliminate () hypnozoites and prevent relapses. There are however indications that for tropical isolates, notably from Southeast Asia, the lower dose of 3·5 mg/kg is insufficient. Determining the most effective regimen to eliminate hypnozoites is needed to achieve elimination of this malaria parasite.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Neonatal Screen
December 2024
Laboratory of Genomic, Epigenetics, Precision and Predictive Medicine, School of Medicine, Mohammed VI University of Sciences and Health, Casablanca 82403, Morocco.
Unlabelled: Newborn screening (NBS) represents an important public health measure for the early detection of specified disorders; such screening can prevent disability and death, not only from metabolic disorders but also from endocrine, hematologic, immune, and cardiac disorders. Screening for critical congenital conditions affecting newborns' health is a great challenge, especially in developing countries such as Morocco, where NBS program infrastructure is lacking. In addition, the consanguinity rate is high in Morocco.
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December 2024
Department of Medical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Koc University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Aging is influenced by cellular senescence mechanisms that are associated with oxidative stress. Oxidative stress is the imbalance between antioxidants and free radicals. This imbalance affects enzyme activities and causes mitochondrial dysfunction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiabetes Res Clin Pract
January 2025
Leumit Research Institute, Leumit Health Services, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Adelson School of Medicine, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel.
Aims: To assess the impact of Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency, an enzymatic deficiency prevalent in individuals of African or Asian descent, on Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels, diabetes medication purchases, and the cumulative incidence of diabetes related complications.
Methods: A large cohort study was conducted within a national health organization, comparing 3,913 G6PD-deficient patients to a matched control group without G6PD deficiency over two decades. The main measures and outcomes were the HbA1c levels, patterns of diabetes medication purchases, and the incidence of severe diabetes-related complications.
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