Focused Screening and Treatment (FSAT): a PCR-based strategy to detect malaria parasite carriers and contain drug resistant P. falciparum, Pailin, Cambodia.

Recent studies have shown that Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites in Pailin province, along the border between Thailand and Cambodia, have become resistant to artemisinin derivatives. To better define the epidemiology of P. falciparum populations and to assess the risk of the possible spread of...

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Main Authors: Stefan Hoyer, Sokomar Nguon, Saorin Kim, Najibullah Habib, Nimol Khim, Sarorn Sum, Eva-Maria Christophel, Steven Bjorge, Andrew Thomson, Sim Kheng, Nguon Chea, Sovann Yok, Samphornarann Top, Seyha Ros, Uth Sophal, Michelle M Thompson, Steve Mellor, Frédéric Ariey, Benoit Witkowski, Chhiang Yeang, Shunmay Yeung, Socheat Duong, Robert D Newman, Didier Menard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23049687/pdf/?tool=EBI