Tafenoquine - A Radical Improvement?

Affiliations

¹ From Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, and the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Editorial

Nicholas J White. N Engl J Med. 2019.

. 2019 Jan 17;380(3):285-286.

doi: 10.1056/NEJMe1816383.

¹ From Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, and the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

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