New Studies Highlight Setback, Advance in Global Malaria Fight

Emergence of resistance to the drug artemisinin in western Thailand has created a critical point in global efforts to control malaria worldwide. A second study, identifies a major region of the malaria parasite genome associated with resistance, raising hope that there will soon be effective molecular markers for monitoring the spread of resistance.

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