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Efficacy of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy, Mansa, Zambia.
Malaria journal - 9 Jun 2014
Tan Kathrine R, Katalenich Bonnie L, Mace Kimberly E, Nambozi Michael, Taylor Steve M, Meshnick Steven R, Wiegand Ryan E, Chalwe Victor, Filler Scott J, Kamuliwo Mulakwa, Craig Allen S
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BACKGROUND: Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) decreases adverse effects of malaria during pregnancy. Zambia implemented its IPTp-SP programme in 2003. Emergence of SP-resistant Plasmodium falciparum threatens this strategy. The quintuple mutant haplotype (substitutions in N51I, C59R, S108N in dhfr and A437G and K540E in dhps genes), is associated...
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