Study provides first evidence of African children with severe malaria experiencing partial resistance to world’s most powerful malaria drug

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Source: NIAID

A new study from Uganda provides the first evidence to date that resistance to a lifesaving malaria drug may be emerging in the group of patients that accounts for most of the world’s malaria deaths: young African children suffering from serious infections.

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