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Drug resistance and genetic mapping in Plasmodium falciparum.
Current genetics - 1 Nov 2008
Hayton Karen, Su Xin-Zhuan
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Drug resistance in malaria parasites is a serious public health burden, and resistance to most of the antimalarial drugs currently in use has been reported. A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of drug resistance is urgently needed to slow or circumvent the spread of resistance, to allow local treatments to be deployed more effectively to prolong the life span of the current drugs, and to develop...
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