Article
No Evidence of Piperaquine Resistance in Southeast Nigeria
2025-04-28
Abstract excerpt
Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) are currently the first-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria. However, ACTs are being threatened by the emergence of Plasmodium falciparum strains resistant to artemisinins as well as their partner drugs. Periodical surveillance of drug efficacy and molecular markers associated with resistance is required to monitor this. Resistance to piperaquine (PPQ), the partn...
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- Literature Corpus work
- fabc6929-d7bd-5001-8e2f-4f69eb5373a9
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202504.2253.v1
