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SUBMITTER: Brazeau NF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6838589 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20191101 5
Although Ethiopia has an overall lower prevalence of <i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> among countries in Africa, the emergence of drug resistance could seriously hinder elimination efforts. Using samples collected from five therapeutic efficacy studies conducted in 2007-11, we evaluated the prevalence of putative drug resistance mutations in the <i>pfcrt</i>, <i>pfmdr1</i>, and <i>kelch13</i> genes at the time of those studies, as well as the <i>ama1</i> gene for genetic relatedness using a pooled a ...[more]