gametocytaemia

English

Alternative forms

• gametocytemia

Etymology

gametocyte +‎ -aemia

Noun

gametocytaemia (countable and uncountable, plural gametocytaemias)

1. (pathology) The presence of gametocytes in the blood
   • 2015 July 25, Marcel Tanner et al., “Malaria eradication and elimination: views on how to translate a vision into reality”, in BMC Medicine‎^[1], volume 13, →DOI:

     Current trials (Table 2 ) use a full course of dihydroartemisinin/piperaquine (DHA-P) and a single low dose of primaquine is added to the drug combination to abort gametocytaemia as quickly as possible [ 36, 48 ].

Related terms

• gametocytaemic