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Article: Resistance to dihydroartemisinin.(Letter to the editor)
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
- Author:
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In Response: The original title of our article was "Lack of Plasmodium falciparum in Vitro and Genomic Resistance to Dihydroartemisinin in Travelers Returning to France from Africa." EID's shortening of the title (1) led to the perception that the letter title was misleading, but it was not on purpose. We have recently tested the 50% inhibitory concentration for artemether of the s769N PfATPase6 isolate that we had kept in liquid nitrogen, and it showed susceptibility.
We underline that the previously reported clinical or parasitologic failures to some artemisinin-based combination therapies (2,3) were not synonymous with the emergence of resistance to ...