Ex vivo susceptibilities of Plasmodium vivax isolates from the China-Myanmar border to antimalarial drugs and association with polymorphisms in Pvmdr1 and Pvcrt-o genes.
BackgroundVivax malaria is an important public health problem in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), including the China-Myanmar border.Previous studies have found that Plasmodium vivax has decreased sensitivity to antimalarial drugs in some areas of the GMS, but the sensitivity of P.vivax to antimalarial drugs is unclear in the China-Myanmar borde