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Tafenoquine: First Global Approval.
Review in Drugs, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05203744 (Safety, Tolerability and Pharmacokinetics of Tafenoquine After Weekly and Escalating Monthly Doses of Tafenoquine in Healthy Vietnamese Volunteers), which is not on this map. Cited by 33 papers.
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Safety, Tolerability and Pharmacokinetics of Tafenoquine After Weekly and Escalating Monthly Doses of Tafenoquine in Healthy Vietnamese Volunteers
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 63 citations in OpenAlex.
- Single low-dose tafenoquine combined with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine to reduce Plasmodium falciparum transmission in Ouelessebougou, Mali: a phase 2, single-blind, randomised clinical trial.The Lancet. Microbe · 2022Trial
- Effects of MAO-A and CYP450 on primaquine metabolism in healthy volunteers.Parasitology research · 2019Trial
- Two Plasmodium vivax hypnozoite-expressed RNA-binding proteins inhibit liver stage replication.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Tafenoquine: A Breakthrough Option for Babesiosis Treatment.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2026Article
- Tafenoquine succinate inhibits the growth of the equine piroplasmosis hemoparasites Theileria equi and Babesia caballi.Parasites & vectors · 2026Article
- Physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling of tafenoquine and evaluation of transporter-mediated drug-drug interactions.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Article
- TwoResearch square · 2025Article
- Recent Advances in the Treatment of Malaria.Pharmaceutics · 2024Review
- Tafenoquine-Atovaquone Combination Achieves Radical Cure and Confers Sterile Immunity in Experimental Models of Human Babesiosis.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Advances in the Development of Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors as New Antiprotozoal Agents.Current medicinal chemistry · 2024Review
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- Forward or Backward: Lessons Learned from Small Molecule Drugs Approved by FDA from 2012 to 2022.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Plasma Blood Levels of Tafenoquine following a Single Oral Dosage in BALBc Mice with AcutePathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Characterizing the Blood-Stage Antimalarial Activity of Tafenoquine in Healthy Volunteers Experimentally Infected With Plasmodium falciparum.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023Article
- Copper-catalyzed selective C5-H bromination and difluoromethylation of 8-aminoquinoline amides using ethyl bromodifluoroacetate as the bifunctional reagent.RSC advances · 2023Article
- What We Have Learned from Animal Models to Understand the Etiology and Pathology of Endometrioma-Related Infertility.Biomedicines · 2022Review
- Metabolic, Pharmacokinetic, and Activity Profile of the Liver Stage Antimalarial (RC-12).ACS omega · 2022Article
- Repeatability and reproducibility of a handheld quantitative G6PD diagnostic.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Dynamical Analysis on a Malaria Model with Relapse Preventive Treatment and Saturated Fumigation.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2022Article
- Treatment of Human Babesiosis: Then and Now.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Abstract
Tafenoquine (Krintafel™, Arakoda™), an orally-active 8-aminoquinoline anti-malarial drug, is a long-acting analogue of primaquine with activity against pre-erythrocytic (liver) and erythrocytic (asexual) forms as well as gametocytes of Plasmodium species that include Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax) and Plasmodium falciparum. It has been developed by GlaxoSmithKline (formerly SmithKline Beecham) for the radical cure of P. vivax malaria and by 60 Degrees Pharmaceuticals for the prophylaxis of malaria. The exact mechanism(s) of action underlying the anti-Plasmodium activity of tafenoquine are unknown, although it may exert its effect by inhibiting haematin polymerization and, additionally, by inducing mitochondrial dysfunction leading to the apoptotic-like death of the organism. In July 2018, tafenoquine was approved in the USA for the radical cure of P. vivax malaria in patients aged ≥ 16 years who are receiving appropriate antimalarial therapy for acute P. vivax malaria. Subsequently, in August 2018, tafenoquine was approved in the USA for the prophylaxis of malaria in patients aged ≥ 18 years. This article primarily summarizes the milestones in the development of tafenoquine leading to its first global approval for the radical cure of P. vivax malaria.
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