Circulation of an Artemisinin-Resistant Malaria Lineage in a Traveler Returning from East Africa to France.

Coppée, Romain; Bailly, Justine; Sarrasin, Véronique; Vianou, Bertin; Zinsou, Boris Enock; Mazars, Edith; Georges, Hugues; Hamane, Samia et al. · Clin Infect Dis · 2022

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

A returned traveler to Uganda presented with a Plasmodium falciparum kelch13 A675V mutant infection that exhibited delayed clearance under artesunate therapy. Parasites were genetically related to recently reported Ugandan artemisinin-resistant A675V parasites. Adequate malaria prevention measures and clinical and genotypic surveillance are important tools to avoid and track artemisinin resistance.

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