Malaria Resistance Genes: Implications For Spread Of Artemisinin Resistance

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English - January 22, 2012 15:10 - 7 minutes - 2.44 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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PHILADELPHIA—Research findings on gene changes enabling malaria parasites to resist anti-malarial drugs were discussed at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting in Philadelphia. This has come in the midst of worries about the slow rise in resistance to the most modern group of drugs — artemisinin combinations — in Cambodia and Thailand. Professor David Conway of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine gave Peter Goodwin some of the details.