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Emergence of artemisinin-resistant <i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> with <i>kelch13</i> C580Y mutations on the island of New Guinea
2019-07-17
Abstract excerpt
The rapid and aggressive spread of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum carrying the kelch13 C580Y mutation is a growing threat to malaria elimination in Southeast Asia, but there is no evidence of their spread to other regions. We conducted cross-sectional surveys in 2016 and 2017 at two clinics in Wewak, Papua New Guinea (PNG) where we identified three infections caused by C580Y mutants among 239 genotype...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6827c27d-feb9-50d9-ba35-ab601b4a2b16
- DOI
- 10.1101/621813
