Molecular evidence of increased resistance to anti-folate drugs in Plasmodium falciparum in North-East India: a signal for potential failure of artemisinin plus sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine combination therapy.

North-east India, being a corridor to South-east Asia, is believed to play an important role in transmitting drug resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria to India and South Asia. North-east India was the first place in India to record the emergence of drug resistance to chloroquine as well as sulpha...

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Main Authors: Pradyumna Kishore Mohapatra, Devojit Kumar Sarma, Anil Prakash, Khukumoni Bora, Md Atique Ahmed, Bibhas Sarma, Basanta Kumar Goswami, Dibya Ranjan Bhattacharyya, Jagadish Mahanta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4153584?pdf=render