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Geographic Differences in Antimalarial Drug Efficacy in Uganda Are Explained by Differences in Endemicity and Not by Known Molecular Markers of Drug Resistance
6 Mar 2006
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BACKGROUND: Recent clinical trials from Uganda have shown that the risk of failure following antimalarial therapy varies geographically. We tested the hypothesis that geographic differences in the response to therapy could be explained by differences in the prevalence of known molecular markers of drug resistance. METHODS: Samples from 2084 patients treated with chloroquine (CQ) plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine...
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