Why are there so many independent origins of artemisinin resistance in malaria parasites?
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malaria parasites? Timothy J.C. Anderson, Shalini Nair, Marina McDew-White, Ian H. Cheeseman, Standwell Nkhoma, Fatma Bilgic, Rose McGready, Elizabeth Ashley, Aung Pyae Phyo, Nicholas J. White, François Nosten Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, Thailand Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Churchill Hospital, University of Oxford, United Kingdom *Email for correspondence: [email protected]
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