Malaria Epidemic and Drug Resistance, Djibouti

Abstract

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 parasite drug resistance of local parasite populations.

Keywords

• malaria
• Plasmodium falciparum
• Disease Outbreaks
• Drug Resistance
• genotype
• merozoite surface protein 1