Molecular surveillance for anti-malarial drug resistance and genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum after chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine withdrawal in Quibdo, Colombia, 2018

Abstract Background Resistance to anti-malarial drugs is associated with polymorphisms in target genes and surveillance for these molecular markers is important to detect the emergence of mutations associated with drug resistance and signal recovering sensitivity to anti-malarials previously used. M...

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Main Authors: Angela Patricia Guerra, Mario Javier Olivera, Liliana Jazmín Cortés, Stella M. Chenet, Alexandre Macedo de Oliveira, Naomi W. Lucchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-10-01
Series:Malaria Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-022-04328-x