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Malaria epidemic and drug resistance, Djibouti |
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| Authors: | Rogier Christophe Pradines Bruno Bogreau H Koeck Jean-Louis Kamil Mohamed-Ali Mercereau-Puijalon Odile |
| Affiliation: | IMTSSA-IFR48, BP46, Parc du Pharo, 13998 Marseille-Armees, France. christophe.rogier@wanadoo.fr |
| Abstract: | Analysis of Plasmodium falciparum isolates collected before, during, and after a 1999 malaria epidemic in Djibouti shows that, despite a high prevalence of resistance to chloroquine, the epidemic cannot be attributed to a sudden increase in drug resistance of local parasite populations. |
| Keywords: | malaria Plasmodium falciparum Disease Outbreaks Drug Resistance genotype merozoite surface protein 1 merozoite surface protein 2 dihydrofolate reductase dihydropteroate synthase chloroquine dispatch |
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