The global challenge of antimalarial drug resistance
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Antimalarial drug resistance
Antimalarial drug resistance is of great concern in the WHO South-East Asia (SEA) Region. A high degree of resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine is prevalent in this Region. Multidrug resistance is prevalent in some parts of the Greater Mekong Sub-region. Artemisinin and its derivatives in combination with other effective partner drugs, which showed fa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Malaria Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1475-2875
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-11-s1-o37