Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: A Study of the Pharmacokinetics of Primaquine in Lactating Women and Breastfed Infants for the Radical Treatment of Uncomplicated Maternal P. Vivax
Brief Summary: The weight of malaria falls most heavily on young children and pregnant women but studies of the safety of antimalarials in pregnancy and lactation are few. The only recommended medication used for radical treatment of P.vivax is primaquine. The 2010 WHO malaria guidelines recommend its use in all patients with P.vivax infection in areas of low transmission, in the absence of contraindications. Primaquine is contraindicated in pregnancy. The postpartum period presents a key opportunity to definitively treat women who suffer multiple malaria relapses during pregnancy. The 2010 WHO malaria treatment guidelines allow for primaquine use during lactation but there are no studies to date quantifying primaquine excretion in breast milk and the dose that breastfed infants would be exposed to is unknown. The investigators propose to study the pharmacokinetics of primaquine in maternal and infant plasma and in breast milk during a 14 day radical treatment of P.vivax.

Some inferences about the expected behavior of primaquine in lactation can be drawn from its known pharmacologic properties. Primaquine pharmacokinetics have been well characterized in healthy subjects and malaria patients after single and multiple oral dosing. Peak concentrations are reached within 2-3 hours after dosing and the plasma elimination half-life is \~7 hours. It is extensively distributed in the tissue and largely metabolized to inert carboxyprimaquine, the major plasma metabolite, which undergoes further biotransformation to unknown metabolites that are probably more toxic than the parent compound. The identification of other metabolites in humans has been difficult to pursue because the expected aminophenol metabolites are unstable.

No pharmacokinetic studies have been done to measure primaquine excretion in breast milk. A few studies have been done of other antimalarials during lactation and have shown low levels of drug in breast milk during treatment.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients diagnosed with P. vivax parasitaemia
* Patients over 3 years
* Patients with G6PD deficiency to a safety trial
* Patients without G6PD deficiency to all other groups.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Children under the age of three
* Pregnant / breast feeding women
* Patients with severe clinical anaemia \[Hb\<7g/dl\]
* Patients with P. falciparum
* Patients unavailable for the duration of study.
* Patients who have taken antimalarial drugs in the 2 weeks prior to consultation.
* Patients with concomitant infections or whose general health is considered too poor.
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Lactating women aged 18 years and older who are breast feeding one infant aged more than 28 days.
* G6PD normal
* History of proven P.vivax malaria that has not been treated with primaquine
* Willingness and ability to comply with the study protocol for the duration of the trial
* Written informed consent provided

Exclusion Criteria:

* Known hypersensitivity to primaquine, defined as history of erythroderma/other severe cutaneous reaction, angioedema or anaphylaxis
* Glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency in mother
* Glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency in infant
* Pregnancy (urine test for HCG to be performed on any woman of child bearing age unless menstruating)
* Blood smear positive for malaria at the time of enrolment
* Presence of intercurrent illness or any condition which in the judgement of the investigator would place the patient at undue risk or interfere with the results of the study
* Hematocrit (HCT) \<25% in the mother or \<33% in the infant
* Use of medications other than antipyretics in the past 7 days or Chloroquine in the past 2 months.
* Use of primaquine since most recent malaria episode.
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* Adults and children \> 6 months
* Weight \> 7 kg for children
* Have not had primaquine since last Pv episode
* Participant (or parent/guardian if \< 18 years old) is willing and able to give written informed consent
* Microscopic diagnosis of Plasmodium vivax mono-infection
* Ability (in the investigators opinion) and willingness of patient or parent/guardian to comply with all study requirements

Exclusion Criteria

* Allergy to artesunate, chloroquine or primaquine
* Severe malaria
* Patients with microscopic diagnosis of co-infection with Plasmodium falciparum
* Presence of any condition which in the judgement of the investigator would place the subject at undue risk or interfere with the results of the study
* Inability to tolerate oral medication
* Pregnancy
* Blood transfusion in the last 3 months
* Antimalarial in last 2 months
D: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Positive smear for P. vivax.
2. Parasite density \> 500 and \< 200,000/μl
3. Age: 20-60 years old
4. Willing to sign consent form
5. Willing to be hospitalized for 29 days and remain in a malaria free region for 60 days thereafter for follow-up.
6. A female is eligible to enter and participate in this study if she is of:

a non-childbearing potential (i.e., physiologically incapable of becoming pregnant), including any female who is post-menopausal or, b child-bearing potential, has a negative pregnancy (urine or serum) test at screen, and agrees to comply with recognized contraceptive methods during the treatment stage of the study and for a period of 12 weeks after stopping study drug. Recognized contraceptive methods include, abstinence, implants of levonorgestrel, injectable progestogen, or appropriate double barrier methods using licensed contraceptives such as diaphragm and condom (by the partner) or intrauterine device and condom. The use of oral/patch contraceptives during the study is not considered sufficient contraceptive protection.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Mixed malaria infections by Field's stain.
2. Female subjects who are pregnant, lactating or unwilling/unable to comply with recognized contraceptive methods during the treatment stage of the study and for a period of 12 weeks after stopping study drug.
3. Symptoms of severe vomiting (no food or inability to take food during the previous 8 hours).
4. Demonstrated glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency.
5. Subject has taken other anti-malarials (mefloquine, primaquine, chloroquine) within the past 30 days by history
6. Clinically significant illness (intercurrent illness e.g. pneumonia, pre-existing condition e.g. renal disease, malignancy or conditions that may affect absorption of study medication e.g. severe diarrhea or any signs of malnutrition as defined clinically).
7. Clinically significant abnormal laboratory values as determined by history, physical examination or routine blood chemistries and hematology values (laboratory guideline values for exclusion are hemoglobin \<7 gm/dL, platelets \< 50,000/μl, White Blood Cell count (WBC) \< 2000/μl, serum creatinine \>2.0mg/dL, or ALT or AST more than 3 times the upper limit of normal for age.
8. History of allergy to chloroquine, mefloquine, tafenoquine, primaquine or any other 8-aminoquinolines.
9. Subject has taken another investigational drug within 30 days or 5 half lives (whichever is longer), of study start.
10. History of previous eye surgery or have evidence of corneal or retinal abnormalities identified in baseline ophthalmological examination.
11. Subjects taking concomitant medications likely to affect renal or ophthalmic function or that are known to be metabolized primarily by the cytochrome P450 isoforms 3A4/5 and 2C9 and whose therapeutic effect occurs within a narrow plasma concentration range (e.g. warfarin, ketoconazole).
12. Subjects whom, after examination by the study ophthalmologist, are judged to be at risk for acute angle closure glaucoma.
13. Females who are pre-menarchal.

Answer: B