Plasmodium falciparum Recrudescence Two Years after Treatment of an Uncomplicated Infection without Return to an Area Where Malaria Is Endemic.

Antimicrob Agents Chemother

Unité Parasitologie et Entomologie, Département des Maladies Infectieuses, Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées, Marseille, France

Published: February 2018

We report evidence, confirmed by the lack of travel activity outside of France and genetic diversity analysis using polymorphic microsatellite markers, that malaria infection effectively treated with an artemisinin-based combination can remain dormant and relapse during pregnancy at least 2 years after treatment.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5786779PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AAC.01892-17DOI Listing

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