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SUBMITTER: Morton LC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5062779 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20160718 4
Chloroquine (CQ) remains the first-line treatment of malaria in Haiti. Given the challenges of conducting in vivo drug efficacy trials in low-endemic settings like Haiti, molecular surveillance for drug resistance markers is a reasonable approach for detecting resistant parasites. In this study, 349 blood spots were collected from suspected malaria cases in areas in and around Port-au-Prince from March to July 2010. Among them, 121 samples that were Plasmodium falciparum positive by polymerase c ...[more]