Molecular monitoring of resistant dhfr and dhps allelic haplotypes in Morogoro and Mvomero districts in south eastern Tanzania
BACKGROUND: Resistance to the antimalarial drug sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) emerged in Plasmodium falciparum from Asia in the 1960s and subsequently spread to Africa. In Tanzania, SP use as a national policy began in 1983 as a second line to chloroquine (CQ) for the treatment of uncomplicated mal...
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Makerere Medical School
2011
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Online Access: | https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3158517/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21857842 |
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