Monitoring antimalarial drug resistance: making the most of the tools at hand.

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Most countries in resource-poor, malaria-endemic areas lack current and comprehensive information on antimalarial drug efficacy, resulting in sub-optimal antimalarial treatment policies. Many African countries continue to use chloroquine despite very high rates of resistance, and others have changed policies based on limited data, with mixed success. Methods for measuring antimalarial drug efficacy and resistance...

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