Trends in chloroquine resistance marker, Pfcrt-K76T mutation ten years after chloroquine withdrawal in Tanzania

BACKGROUND: Plasmodium falciparum resistance to anti-malarial drugs remains a major obstacle to the control of malaria. In 2001 Tanzania replaced chloroquine (CQ) with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) as first-line drug, which in turn was replaced by artemisinin combination therapy in 2006. SP has ho...

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Autores principales: Mohammed, Asia, Ndaro, Arnold, Kalinga, Akili, Manjurano, Alphaxard, Mosha, Jackline F, Mosha, Dominick F, van Zwetselaar, Marco, Koenderink, Jan B, Mosha, Frank W, Alifrangis, Michael, Reyburn, Hugh, Roper, Cally, Kavishe, Reginald A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24225406
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-12-415

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24225406
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-12-415

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