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Last Posted: Jan 26, 2017

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• Culture adaptation of malaria parasites selects for convergent loss-of-function mutants.
  Claessens Antoine et al. Scientific reports 2017 Jan 41303
• Plasmodium malariae and P. ovale genomes provide insights into malaria parasite evolution.
  Rutledge Gavin G et al. Nature 2017 Jan
• Molecular surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance markers reveals partial recovery of chloroquine susceptibility but sustained sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance at two sites of different malaria transmission intensities in Rwanda.
  Kateera Fredrick et al. Acta tropica 2016 Dec 329-336
• To Fight Malaria, Scientists Try Genetic Engineering To Wipe Out Mosquitoes
  R Stein, NPR, December 2016
• Whole genome sequencing of Plasmodium falciparum from dried blood spots using selective whole genome amplification.
  Oyola Samuel O et al. Malaria journal 2016 Dec (1) 597
• Evaluation of the Illumigene Malaria LAMP: A Robust Molecular Diagnostic Tool for Malaria Parasites.
  Lucchi Naomi W et al. Scientific reports 2016 Nov 36808
• Selective sweep suggests transcriptional regulation may underlie Plasmodium vivax resilience to malaria control measures in Cambodia
  Parobek CM, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci, Nov 28, 2016.
• Transcriptional categorization of the etiology of pneumonia syndrome in pediatric patients in malaria endemic areas.
  Silterra Jacob et al. The Journal of infectious diseases 2016 Nov
• Analysis of anti-malarial resistance markers in pfmdr1 and pfcrt across Southeast Asia in the Tracking Resistance to Artemisinin Collaboration.
  Srimuang Krongkan et al. Malaria journal 2016 Nov (1) 541
• A surrogate marker of piperaquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria: a phenotype-genotype association study.
  Witkowski Benoit et al. The Lancet. Infectious diseases 2016 Nov