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Source of drug resistant Plasmodium falciparum in a potential malaria elimination site in Saudi Arabia.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Aug 2012
Al-Farsi Hissa M, Al-Hashami Zainab S, Bin Dajem Saad M, Al-Sheikh Adel Ali H, Al-Qahtani Ahmed, Beja-Pereira Albano, Idris Mohamed A, Babiker Hamza A
Abstract excerpt
A major challenge to the success of malaria control program in Saudi Arabia is the high influx of expatriates and holy visitors from malaria endemic countries. In the present study we examined whether drug resistant parasite genotypes reported in Jazan region, southwest of Saudi Arabia are imported or developed locally. We examined 178 Plasmodium falciparum isolates for alleles of dihydropteroate synthase (dhps)...
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