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Current malaria control and elimination tools such as drug treatments are not specifically targeting P.ovale . P. ovale can form hypnozoite and cause relapsing malaria. P. ovale is the third most dominant species in Africa and requires radical cure treatment given that it can form liver dormant forms called hypnozoites that escape all safe treatments. The inappropriate treatment of P. ovale would sustain its transmission in Africa where the medical need is the greatest.
Aniweh et al. (Mon,) studied this question.