The community as the patient in malaria-endemic areas: Preempting drug resistance with multiple first-line therapies.
<p>Combination therapy is an effective way to delay or prevent drug-resistance evolution in malaria, but we do not take full advantage of its potential.</p> <br/> <p>Deploying multiple first-line combination therapies allows us to challenge parasite populations with many diff...
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| description | <p>Combination therapy is an effective way to delay or prevent drug-resistance evolution in malaria, but we do not take full advantage of its potential.</p> <br/> <p>Deploying multiple first-line combination therapies allows us to challenge parasite populations with many different types of drugs, and thus delay and slow down drugresistance evolution more than with a single combination therapy.</p> <br/> <p>We must take a preemptive, not reactive, policy approach to drug-resistance management in malaria.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:d3c505e4-8ff3-415c-afdb-fb557c3958a52022-03-27T08:13:39ZThe community as the patient in malaria-endemic areas: Preempting drug resistance with multiple first-line therapies.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:d3c505e4-8ff3-415c-afdb-fb557c3958a5EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordPublic Library of Science2016Boni, MWhite, NBaird, J<p>Combination therapy is an effective way to delay or prevent drug-resistance evolution in malaria, but we do not take full advantage of its potential.</p> <br/> <p>Deploying multiple first-line combination therapies allows us to challenge parasite populations with many different types of drugs, and thus delay and slow down drugresistance evolution more than with a single combination therapy.</p> <br/> <p>We must take a preemptive, not reactive, policy approach to drug-resistance management in malaria.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Boni, M White, N Baird, J The community as the patient in malaria-endemic areas: Preempting drug resistance with multiple first-line therapies. |
| title | The community as the patient in malaria-endemic areas: Preempting drug resistance with multiple first-line therapies. |
| title_full | The community as the patient in malaria-endemic areas: Preempting drug resistance with multiple first-line therapies. |
| title_fullStr | The community as the patient in malaria-endemic areas: Preempting drug resistance with multiple first-line therapies. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The community as the patient in malaria-endemic areas: Preempting drug resistance with multiple first-line therapies. |
| title_short | The community as the patient in malaria-endemic areas: Preempting drug resistance with multiple first-line therapies. |
| title_sort | community as the patient in malaria endemic areas preempting drug resistance with multiple first line therapies |
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