Investigating The Evolution Of Drug Resistance In Malaria Parasites

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Investigating The Evolution Of Drug Resistance In Malaria Parasites - 30-08-2007, 08:01 AM

Scientists hope to understand how the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum evolved resistance to the once-effective medication chloroquine. They have about 11,000 archived human blood samples from malarious regions of the Pacific collected from the 1950s to the present. The samples will be analyzed and researchers will document the accumulation of genetic changes that resulted in chloroquine's treatment failure in the Pacific. The problem is that parasites develop resistance to the drugs over time.

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