Origins of the current outbreak of multidrug resistant malaria in Southeast Asia: a retrospective genetic study
R. Amato, R. D. Pearson, J. Almagro-Garcia, C. Amaratunga, P. Lim, S. Suon, S. Sreng, E. Drury, J. Stalker, O. Miotto, R. M. Fairhurst, D. P. Kwiatkowski
This study identifies the genetic origins of multidrug-resistant malaria in Southeast Asia by analyzing genome sequences from 2007 to 2013, revealing a dominant lineage linked to artemisinin and piperaquine resistance.
bioRxiv · Oct 24, 2017Evolutionary Biology