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Researchers found that malaria resistant to two first-line drugs quickly spread from Cambodia to neighboring countries of Southeast Asia.
Scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hinxton, Oxford University and Mahidol University in Bangkok have used genomic surveillance to inform global efforts to control the disease, which is transmitted by mosquitoes and kills 400,000 per year.
They sequenced and badyzed the DNA of 1,673 Plasmodium falciparum parasites collected from the blood of malaria patients between 2008 and 2018.
In full: https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/drug-resistant-malaria-spreads-in-south-east-asia-from-cambodia-sanger-institute-finds-9077382/
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