Challenges of drug-resistant malaria

Over the past six decades, the drug resistance of Plasmodium falciparum has become an issue of utmost concern. Despite the remarkable progress that has been made in recent years in reducing the mortality rate to about 30% with the scaling-up of vector control, introduction of artemisinin-based combi...

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Published in:Parasite
Main Authors: Sinha Shweta, Medhi Bikash, Sehgal Rakesh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2014-01-01
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2014059