Mitigating the threat of artemisinin resistance in Africa: improvement of drug-resistance surveillance and response systems.
Artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria has emerged in western Cambodia and has been detected in western Thailand. The situation is ominously reminiscent of the emergence of resistance to chloroquine and to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine several decades ago. Artemisinin resistance is a major...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2012
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