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Monitoring chloroquine resistance using Plasmodium falciparum parasites isolated from wild mosquitoes in Tanzania.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene - 1 Dec 2006
Temu Emmanuel A, Kimani Issac, Tuno Nabuko, Kawada Hitoshi, Minjas Japhet N, Takagi Masahiro
Abstract excerpt
Monitoring antimalarial drug resistance is a useful epidemiologic tool and provides early detection of resistance foci. Using DNA extracted from the head/thorax of wild mosquitoes collected from Bagamoyo Coastal Tanzania, samples infected by Plasmodium falciparum (N = 89, in 2002 and N = 249 in 2004) were screened by nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) assay for...
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