In Southeast Asia, drug-resistant strains of the malaria parasite are emerging
July 24th, 2019‘…..”Somehow antimalarial drug resistance always starts in that part of the world,” says Arjen Dondorp, who leads malaria research at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok ………
“In the past, chloroquine resistance originated there. Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, the next generation of antimalarials — resistance to that originated there. And now the artemisinin resistance also was first detected in western Cambodia.”…..’
Accelerated evolution and spread of multidrug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum takes down the latest first-line antimalarial drug in southeast Asia
Published:July 22, 2019
Accelerated evolution and spread of multidrug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum takes down the latest first-line antimalarial drug in southeast Asia
William L Hamilton
Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UKCambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
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