brS question 5 - alina972

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Military policy dictates that flight personnel in Iraq receive primaquine chemoprophylaxis for Plasmodium vivax malaria on redeploying to a non-malarious area. Several days after beginning such a regimen, a 26-year-old African-American pilot develops anemia, hemoglobinemia, and hemoglobinuria. Special studies will likely reveal an abnormality in which of the following?

(A) Duffy antigen
(B) G6PD
© Intrinsic factor
(D) PIG-A
(E) Spectrin

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Ans B

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bbb

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bb

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bb

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B is the correct answer