PRO/EDR> Malaria - Southeast Asia, artemisinin resistance spread

Antimicrobial resistance -- Myanmar
Background:
Evidence suggests that the PfKelch13 mutations that confer artemisinin resistance in falciparum malaria have multiple independent origins across the Greater Mekong subregion, which has motivated a regional malaria elimination agenda. We aimed to use molecular genotyping to assess antimalarial drug resistance selection and spread in the Greater Mekong subregion.
Methods:
In this observational study, we tested Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Myanmar, northeastern Thailand,

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