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Chloroquine resistance before and after its withdrawal in Kenya.

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BACKGROUND: The spread of resistance to chloroquine (CQ) led to its withdrawal from use in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s. In Malawi, this withdrawal was followed by a rapid reduction in the frequency of resistance to the point where the drug is now considered to be effective once again, just nine years after its withdrawal. In this report, the polymorphisms of markers associated with CQ-resistance against Plasmodium falciparum isolates from coastal Kenya (Kilifi) were inv...

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10.1186/1475-2875-8-106

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BioMed Central
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Malaria Journal More from this journal
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8
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1
Article number:
106
Publication date:
2009-01-01
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1475-2875
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1475-2875

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