Plasmodium falciparum field isolates from areas of repeated emergence of drug resistant malaria show no evidence of hypermutator phenotype.

Multiple transcontinental waves of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum have originated in Southeast Asia before spreading westward, first into the rest of Asia and then to sub-Saharan Africa. In vitro studies have suggested that hypermutator P. falciparum parasites may exist in Southeast Asia a...

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Main Authors: Brown, T, Jacob, C, Silva, J, Takala-Harrison, S, Djimdé, A, Dondorp, A, Fukuda, M, Noedl, H, Nyunt, M, Kyaw, M, Mayxay, M, Hien, T, Plowe, C, Cummings, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2014