Malaria Therapy

Research in the area of malaria therapy reported from Karolinska University, Karolinska Institute

Published in Proteomics Weekly, March 24th, 2008

New investigation results, 'Polymorphism of antimalaria drug metabolizing, nuclear receptor, and drug transport genes among malaria patients in Zanzibar, East Africa,' are detailed in a study published in Therapeutic Drug Monitoring. "Artemisinin-based combination therapy is a main strategy for malaria control in Africa. Zanzibar introduced this new treatment policy in 2003," scientists in Stockholm, Sweden report.

"The authors have studied the prevalence of a number of functional single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genes associated with the elimination of the artemisinin-based combination therapy compounds in use in Zanzibar to investigate the frequencies...

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Source: Proteomics Weekly (2008-03-24)

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