Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Drug-Resistant Malaria Parasites Introduced into Madagascar from Comoros Islands

Didier Ménard*

, Armand Eugène Randrianarivo-Solofoniaina†, Bedja Said Ahmed‡, Martial Jahevitra*, Landy Valérie Andriantsoanirina*, Justin Ranjalahy Rasolofomanana†, and Léon Paul Rabarijaona*

Author affiliations: *Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar; †Institut National de Santé Publique et Communautaire, Antananarivo, Madagascar; ‡Direction Générale de la Santé, Moroni, Union des Comores;

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Map assessing the potential risk for spread of Plasmodium falciparum mutant-type alleles associated with resistance to chloroquine and pyrimethamine from the Comoros Islands to Madagascar, Mahajanga, Madagascar, 2006.

Figure 2. Map assessing the potential risk for spread of Plasmodium falciparum mutant-type alleles associated with resistance to chloroquine and pyrimethamine from the Comoros Islands to Madagascar, Mahajanga, Madagascar, 2006.

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