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Different mutation patterns of Plasmodium falciparum among patients in Jimma University Hospital, Ethiopia.
Malaria journal - 7 Aug 2010
Eshetu Teferi, Berens-Riha Nicole, Fekadu Sintayehu, Tadesse Zelalem, Gürkov Robert, Hölscher Michael, Löscher Thomas, Miranda Isabel Barreto
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BACKGROUND: The emergence of drug resistance is a major problem in malaria control. Combination of molecular genotyping and characterization of mutations or single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) correlated with drug resistance can provide information for subsequent surveillance of existing and developing drug resistance patterns. The introduction of artemether/lumefantrine (AL) as first-line treatment, never...
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