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Ten-Year Molecular Surveillance of Drug-Resistant Plasmodium spp. Isolated From the China-Myanmar Border.
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology - 1 Jan 2021
Tang Tongke, Xu Yanchun, Cao Long, Tian Penghai, Shao Jiang, Deng Yan, Zhou Hongning, Xiao Bo
Abstract excerpt
Antimalarial drug resistance has emerged as a major threat to global malaria control efforts, particularly in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). In this study, we analyzed the polymorphism and prevalence of molecular markers associated with resistance to first-line antimalarial drugs, such as artemisinin, chloroquine, and pyrimethamine, using blood samples collected from malaria patients in the China-Myanmar...
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