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African isolates show a high proportion of multiple copies of the Plasmodium falciparum plasmepsin-2 gene, a piperaquine resistance marker https://t.co/onK8zrGSO8 #malariajournal
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One more #Plasmodium/#malaria paper for today, this one also from @MalariaJournal! So this paper agreed with previous reports from Cambodia that multiple copies of Plasmepsin 2 associated with Piperaquine resistance, this time in Burkina Faso & Uganda:
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"#Resistance to #piperaquine & resistance to #mefloquine have been shown to be mutually exclusive in South East Asia. A possible inverse susceptibility mechanism could be at the origin of this observation" #endmalaria #plasmodium #anopheles @MalariaJou