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Assessment of the molecular marker of Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance (Pfcrt) in Senegal after several years of chloroquine withdrawal.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene - 1 Oct 2012
Ndiaye Magatte, Faye Babacar, Tine Roger, Ndiaye Jean Louis, Lo Aminata, Abiola Annie, Dieng Yemou, Ndiaye Daouda, Hallett Rachel, Alifrangis Michael, Gaye Oumar
Abstract excerpt
As a result of widespread antimalarial drug resistance, all African countries with endemic malaria have, in recent years, changed their malaria treatment policy. In Senegal, the health authorities changed from chloroquine (CQ) to a combination of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) plus amodiaquine (AQ) in 2003. Since 2006, the artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) artemether-lumefantrine (AL) and artesunate plus...
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