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Does antimalarial mass drug administration increase or decrease the risk of resistance?
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All antimalarial drugs have eventually succumbed to resistance. There is a general belief that the more people that are exposed to an antimalarial drug, the more likely it is for resistance to emerge. Mass drug administration is therefore considered a potent cause of antimalarial drug resistance. However it is the total number of parasites exposed and their individual probabilities of survival and spread that determine the risk, not the number of people that contain them. In malaria endemic a...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30269-9
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Lancet Infectious Diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- e15–e20
- Publication date:
- 2016-01-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-05-25
- DOI:
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1474-4457
- ISSN:
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1473-3099
- Source identifiers:
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636803
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:636803
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uuid:36b0328e-48b9-4623-896a-a317700db898
- Local pid:
- pubs:636803
- Deposit date:
- 2016-08-01
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- Elsevier Ltd
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Elsevier at: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30269-9
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