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Plasmodium vivax multidrug resistance-1 gene polymorphism in French Guiana.
Malaria journal - 8 Nov 2016
Faway Emilie, Musset Lise, Pelleau Stéphane, Volney Béatrice, Casteras Jessica, Caro Valérie, Menard Didier, Briolant Sébastien, Legrand Eric
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Plasmodium vivax malaria is a major public health problem in French Guiana. Some cases of resistance to chloroquine, the first-line treatment used against P. vivax malaria, have been described in the Brazilian Amazon region. The aim of this study is to investigate a possible dispersion of chloroquine-resistant P. vivax isolates in French Guiana. The genotype, polymorphism and copy number variation, of...
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