A middle aged Asian presents with episodes of fever with rigors and chills for last 1year. Blood film: ring form plasmodium with schuffner’s dots in RBCs. What is the drug to eradicate this infection?
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None of the given key is correct. [Shuffners dots inside RBC indicate, it is plasmodium ovale or plasmodium vivex infestation. Eradication of the disease needs eradication of liver cycle. None of the given drugs can eradicate liver cycle. Only primaquine is the drug that can eradicate hepatic or liver cycle].
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