Investigation of human genes under pathogen-driven selection as Plasmodium sp. has pinpointed genetic variants that participate in the adaptation to the environment and/or are related to severities of human diseases. The current study examined an example of an evolutionary trade-off in which genetic vari...
As doenças infecciosas constituem um dos principais problemas de saúde no continente
Africano especialmente na África sub-Sahariana, da qual Moçambique faz parte. A participação
de factores genéticos na susceptibilidade dos humanos as doenças infecciosas é um facto. A
identificação de marcador...
In late 2002, the health authorities of Mozambique implemented sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP)/amodiaquine (AQ) as first-line treatment against uncomplicated falciparum malaria. In 2004, this has been altered to SP/artesunate in line with WHO recommendations of using Artemisinin Combination Therapies (AC...
