Effect of mass dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine administration in southern Mozambique on the carriage of molecular markers of antimalarial resistance.
Himanshu GuptaBeatriz GalatasArlindo ChidimatembueSilvie HuijbenPau CisteróGloria MatambissoLidia NhamussuaWilson SimoneSozinho AcácioDidier MénardPascal RingwaldN Regina RabinovichPedro L AlonsoFrancisco SaútePedro AideAlfredo Gabriel Mayor AparicioPublished in: PloS one (2020)
This study does not show any evidence of increased frequency of molecular makers of antimalarial resistance after MDA with DHAp in southern Mozambique where markers of antimalarial resistance were absent or low at the beginning of the intervention.