Diagnosis and treatment of Plasmodium falciparum infections are required for effective malaria control and are pre-requisites for malaria elimination efforts; hence we need to monitor emergence, evolution and spread of drug- and diagnostics-resistant parasites. We deep sequenced key drug-resistance mutations and 1,832 SNPs in the parasite genomes of 609 malaria cases collected during a diagnostic-resistance surveillance study in Ethiopia. Please see article below:
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Date
August 26, 2023
The Bailey lab led by postdoctoral fellow Abebe Fola publishes article in Nature Microbiology detailing the concerning evolution of malaria resistant to both diagnosis and the front line drug artemisinin in Ethiopia.
Plasmodium falciparum resistant to artemisinin and diagnostics have emerged in Ethiopia.