Emergence of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum with kelch13 C580Y mutations on the island of New Guinea.

The rapid and aggressive spread of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum carrying the C580Y mutation in the kelch13 gene is a growing threat to malaria elimination in Southeast Asia, but there is no evidence of their spread to other regions. We conducted cross-sectional surveys in 2016 and 201...

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Main Authors: Olivo Miotto, Makoto Sekihara, Shin-Ichiro Tachibana, Masato Yamauchi, Richard D Pearson, Roberto Amato, Sonia Gonçalves, Somya Mehra, Rintis Noviyanti, Jutta Marfurt, Sarah Auburn, Ric N Price, Ivo Mueller, Mie Ikeda, Toshiyuki Mori, Makoto Hirai, Livingstone Tavul, Manuel W Hetzel, Moses Laman, Alyssa E Barry, Pascal Ringwald, Jun Ohashi, Francis Hombhanje, Dominic P Kwiatkowski, Toshihiro Mita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-12-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1009133