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Drug resistance in Plasmodium.
Nature reviews. Microbiology - 1 Mar 2018
Haldar Kasturi, Bhattacharjee Souvik, Safeukui Innocent
Abstract excerpt
A marked decrease in malaria-related deaths worldwide has been attributed to the administration of effective antimalarials against Plasmodium falciparum, in particular, artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs). Increasingly, ACTs are also used to treat Plasmodium vivax, the second major human malaria parasite. However, resistance to frontline artemisinins and partner drugs is now causing the failure of P....
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