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Prevalence of the dhfr and dhps Mutations among Pregnant Women in Rural Burkina Faso Five Years after the Introduction of Intermittent Preventive Treatment with Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine
BACKGROUND: The emergence and spread of drug resistance represents one of the biggest challenges for malaria control in endemic regions. Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) is currently deployed as intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) to prevent the adverse effects of malaria on the moth...
Autores principales: | Tahita, Marc C., Tinto, Halidou, Erhart, Annette, Kazienga, Adama, Fitzhenry, Robert, VanOvermeir, Chantal, Rosanas-Urgell, Anna, Ouedraogo, Jean-Bosco, Guiguemde, Robert T., Van geertruyden, Jean-Pierre, D’Alessandro, Umberto |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4569438/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26368675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137440 |
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