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Resistance screening and trend analysis of imported falciparum malaria in NSW, Australia (2010 to 2016).
PloS one - 1 Jan 2018
Prosser Christiane, Meyer Wieland, Ellis John, Lee Rogan
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BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization currently recommends artemisinin (along with a partner drug) as the global frontline treatment for Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Artemisinin resistant P. falciparum are now found throughout the greater Mekong subregion of South East Asia. Several polymorphisms in the parasite's kelch gene have been demonstrated to confer artemisinin resistance. While genotypes within the...
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