The math of malaria: Drug resistance 'a numbers game' of competing parasites
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - 11:00
in Health & Medicine
A new mathematical model for malaria shows how competition between parasite strains within a human host reduces the odds of drug resistance developing in a high-transmission setting. But if a drug-resistant strain does become established, that same competition drives the spread of resistance faster, under strong selection from antimalarial drug use.