Rational deployment of antimalarial drugs in Africa: should first-line combination drugs be reserved for paediatric malaria cases?
Artemisinin-based combination therapy is exerting novel selective pressure upon populations of Plasmodium falciparum across Africa. Levels of resistance to non-artemisinin partner drugs differ among parasite populations, and so the artemisinins are not uniformly protected from developing resistance,...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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