Plasmodium falciparum Plasmepsin 2 Duplications, West Africa

Plasmodium falciparum Plasmepsin 2 Duplications, West Africa

Dihydroartemisinin/piperaquine (DHA/PPQ) is increasingly deployed as an antimalaria drug in Africa. We report the detection in Mali of Plasmodium falciparum infections carrying plasmepsin 2 duplications (associated with piperaquine resistance) in 7/65 recurrent infections within 2 months after DHA/P...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Juliana Inoue, Miguel Silva, Bakary Fofana, Kassim Sanogo, Andreas Mårtensson, Issaka Sagara, Anders Björkman, Maria Isabel Veiga, Pedro Eduardo Ferreira, Abdoulaye Djimde, José Pedro Gil
Materialtyp: Artikel
Språk:English
Publicerad: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018-08-01
Serie:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Ämnen:
malaria
piperaquine
resistance
Plasmodium falciparum
plasmepsin 2
Pfpm2
Länkar:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/8/18-0370_article

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https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/8/18-0370_article

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