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Critical Evaluation of Molecular Monitoring in Malaria Drug Efficacy Trials and Pitfalls of Length-Polymorphic Markers.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Jan 2017
Messerli Camilla, Hofmann Natalie E, Beck Hans-Peter, Felger Ingrid
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Estimation of drug efficacy in antimalarial drug trials requires parasite genotyping to distinguish new infections from treatment failures. When using length-polymorphic molecular markers, preferential amplification of short fragments can compromise detection of coinfections, potentially leading to misclassification of treatment outcome. We quantified minority clone detectability and competition among msp1, msp2,...
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