Monitoring parasite diversity for malaria elimination in sub-Saharan Africa.
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SUBMITTER: Ghansah A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4541720 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
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Monitoring parasite diversity for malaria elimination in sub-Saharan Africa.
Ghansah Anita A Amenga-Etego Lucas L Amambua-Ngwa Alfred A Andagalu Ben B Apinjoh Tobias T Bouyou-Akotet Marielle M Cornelius Victoria V Golassa Lemu L Andrianaranjaka Voahangy Hanitriniaina VH Ishengoma Deus D Johnson Kimberly K Kamau Edwin E Maïga-Ascofaré Oumou O Mumba Dieudonne D Tindana Paulina P Tshefu-Kitoto Antoinette A Randrianarivelojosia Milijaona M William Yavo Y Kwiatkowski Dominic P DP Djimde Abdoulaye A AA
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20140901 6202
The African continent continues to bear the greatest burden of malaria and the greatest diversity of parasites, mosquito vectors, and human victims. The evolutionary plasticity of malaria parasites and their vectors is a major obstacle to eliminating the disease. Of current concern is the recently reported emergence of resistance to the front-line drug, artemisinin, in South-East Asia in Plasmodium falciparum, which calls for preemptive surveillance of the African parasite population for genetic ...[more]
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