The emergence and spread of artemisinin drug resistant P. falciparum lineage represents a serious threat to global malaria control and eradication efforts. The authors warn that malaria parasites resistant to both artemisinin and its widely used partner drug piperaquine are now spreading quickly throughout Cambodia, with fitter multidrug resistant parasites spreading throughout western Cambodia, southern Laos and northeastern Thailand.
Links
- Dominant multidrug resistant malaria threatens elimination (WWARN website)
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Drug-resistant bugs threaten global malaria control (Wellcome Trust website)