Malaria epidemic and drug resistance, Djibouti.

Emerg Infect Dis

IMTSSA-IFR48, BP46, Parc du Pharo, 13998 Marseille-Armees, France.

Published: February 2005

Analysis of Plasmodium falciparum isolates collected before, during, and after a 1999 malaria epidemic in Djibouti shows that, despite a high prevalence of resistance to chloroquine, the epidemic cannot be attributed to a sudden increase in drug resistance of local parasite populations.

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