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Molecular markers associated with resistance to commonly used antimalarial drugs among Plasmodium falciparum isolates from a malaria-endemic area in Taiz governorate-Yemen during the transmission season.
Acta tropica - 1 Oct 2016
Alareqi Lina M Q, Mahdy Mohammed A K, Lau Yee-Ling, Fong Mun-Yik, Abdul-Ghani Rashad, Mahmud Rohela
Abstract excerpt
Since 2005, artesunate (AS) plus sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine (SP) combination has been adopted as the first-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria in Yemen in response to the high level of Plasmodium falciparum resistance to chloroquine (CQ). Therefore, the aim of the present study was to determine the frequency distribution of molecular markers associated with resistance to CQ and AS plus SP combination among P....
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