Africa: New Study Provides First Evidence of African Children with Severe Malaria Experiencing Partial Resistance to World's Most Powerful Malaria Drug

[ASTMH] NEW ORLEANS — A new study from Uganda provides the first evidence to date that resistance to a lifesaving malaria drug may be emerging in the group of patients that accounts for most of the world’s malaria deaths: young African children suffering from serious infections. The study, presented today at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), documented partial resistance to the malaria drug artemisinin in 11



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