Emerging Antimalarial Resistance Haplotype: What You Need to Know
Antimalarial resistance in Uganda is shifting as researchers identify a strong selective sweep on chromosome 7 centered on px1, threatening artemisinin-based combination therapies that remain critical for global disease control. Whole-genome sequencing of 157 Plasmodium falciparum samples by Niaré et al. revealed this emerging genetic signature alongside known signals at the k13 locus on chromosome … Read more