Short communicationExpansion of wild type allele rather than back mutation in pfcrt explains the recent recovery of chloroquine sensitivity of Plasmodium falciparum in Malawi
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Acknowledgements
We thank the people in Salima, Malawi, for their kind cooperation, the staff of the Community Health Sciences Unit, Lilongue, Malawi, and Dr Mitamura for Dd2 DNA. This study was supported in part by a grant-in-aid for research on international medical cooperation from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, by grant-in-aid for scientific research (13770127, and 15590375) from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan, Tokyo, Japan.
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