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Molecular Surveillance of Artemisinin-Resistant <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> Parasites in Mining Areas of the Roraima Indigenous Territory in Brazil
2024-04-28
Abstract excerpt
Multidrug Artemisin-resistant (ART-R) Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) parasites represent a challenge for malaria elimination worldwide. Molecular monitoring in the Kelch domain region (pfk13) gene allows tracking mutations in parasite resistance to artemisinin. The increase of illegal miners in Roraima Yanomami indigenous land (IYL) could favor ART-R parasites. Thus, the study aimed to investigate ART-R in patients fr...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9b02cd1d-f096-5fd2-bfca-a3767554620d
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202404.1822.v1
