Studies on African children with severe malaria show that heterozygous females and hemizygous males for G6PD deficiency are underrepresented. This suggests that inheriting the enzyme deficiency ...

or for those whose G6PD status is unknown. This deficiency, which affects approximately 400 million people worldwide—nearly 17% in some regions—offers some protection against severe malaria ...

Recurring malaria is the most common type of malaria ... For example people with an enzyme problem, called G6PD deficiency, should not take the drug as it can cause severe anaemia.

vivax) malaria. Tafenoquine, co-administered with chloroquine ... Tafenoquine, like all 8-aminoquinolines, has the potential to cause haemolytic anaemia in people with glucose-6-phosphate ...

He is a public health expert specialising in diagnostics, malaria and G6PD deficiency and found Munich too cold. That's why he has been living in Darwin for ten years.