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Characterization of treatment failure in efficacy trials of drugs against Plasmodium vivax by genotyping neutral and drug resistance-associated markers.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Sept 2011
Barnadas Celine, Koepfli Cristian, Karunajeewa Harin A, Siba Peter M, Davis Timothy M E, Mueller Ivo
Abstract excerpt
Plasmodium vivax intervention trials customarily report uncorrected treatment failure rates. Application of recrudescence-reinfection genotyping and drug resistance single-nucleotide polymorphism typing to a 4-arm comparative efficacy trial illustrated that molecular approaches can assist in understanding the relative contributions of true drug resistance (recurrent with same genotype) and new infections to...
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