Spread of a single multidrug resistant malaria parasite lineage (PfPailin) to Vietnam

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1022-1023

  Imwong, Mallika ^a   Hien, Tran T ^b   Thuy Nhien, Nguyen T ^b   Dondorp, Arjen M ^a,c   White, Nicholas J ^a,c  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ; ARTESUNATE; DIHYDROARTEMISININ; KELCH LIKE ECH ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1; MEFLOQUINE; PIPERAQUINE; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE;

ANTIMALARIAL DRUG RESISTANCE; CAMBODIA; DISEASE ELIMINATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LAOS; LETTER; LIFE THREAT; MALARIA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PARASITE CLEARANCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PFKELCH GENE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THAILAND; TREATMENT FAILURE; VIET NAM; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MUTATION; PARASITOLOGY;

ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MUTATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; VIETNAM;

EID: 85031897574     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30524-8     Document Type: Letter

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