Molecular surveillance of drug-resistant malaria in India

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Drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum parasite poses a great problem for the malaria control programme of any country. The most commonly used antimalarial drugs, viz. chloroquine (CQ) and sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) have been rendered ineffective and
are replaced by the artesunate-based combination therapy (ACT).

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http://cs-test.ias.ac.in/cs/Volumes/102/05/0696.pdf
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10/03/2012