High prevalence of pfcrt-CVIET haplotype in isolates from asymptomatic and symptomatic patients in south-central Oromia, Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: As a result of extensive chloroquine resistance (CQR) in Plasmodium falciparum in late 1990s, Ethiopia replaced CQ with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) as first-line drug, which in turn was replaced by artemisinin combination therapy in 2004. Plasmodium falciparum resistance to CQ is det...

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Autores principales: Golassa, Lemu, Enweji, Nizar, Erko, Berhanu, Aseffa, Abraham, Swedberg, Göte
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3986696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24674605
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-120

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3986696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24674605
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-120

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