Plasmodium falciparum transmission rate and selection for drug resistance: A vexed association or a key to successful control?

S. Mharakurwa

doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2004.10.011

Plasmodium falciparum transmission rate and selection for drug resistance: A vexed association or a key to successful control?

S. Mharakurwa

Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Abstract

While malaria eradication campaigns once adopted a combination of vector control and chemotherapy to overcome the disease, today's opinion on the matter is equivocal. So what has changed? This paper reviews some of the confusing hypotheses on the relationship between Plasmodium falciparum transmission and levels of drug resistance. New field evidence showing variations of in vivo chloroquine resistance in relation to indoor residual spraying and natural endemicity patterns, is considered with a view to how these phenomena implicate on control.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1483-1487
Number of pages	5
Journal	International Journal for Parasitology
Volume	34
Issue number	13-14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2004.10.011
State	Published - Dec 2004

Keywords

Drug resistance
Malaria transmission
Vector control

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Parasitology
Infectious Diseases

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