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Increase in the prevalence of mutations associated with sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum isolates collected from early to late pregnancy in Nanoro, Burkina Faso

BACKGROUND: Pregnant women are a high-risk group for Plasmodium falciparum infections, which may result in maternal anaemia and low birth weight newborns, among other adverse birth outcomes. Intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine during pregnancy (IPTp-SP) is widely impleme...

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Autores principales: Ruizendaal, Esmée, Tahita, Marc C., Geskus, Ronald B., Versteeg, Inge, Scott, Susana, d’Alessandro, Umberto, Lompo, Palpouguini, Derra, Karim, Traore-Coulibaly, Maminata, de Jong, Menno D., Schallig, Henk D. F. H., Tinto, Halidou, Mens, Petra F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5410088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28454537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-017-1831-y