Newsletter March 2013
21 Feb 2015
WWARN Published Date
· National malaria control program laboratories participating in the Mekong Molecular Surveillance Network will assist in validating possible molecular markers for artemisinin resistance.- · WWARN launches the new In Vitro Analysis and Reporting Tool (IVART). Read more about how the tool rapidly analyses large sets of drug sensitivity data and generates reproducible IC50 estimates.
- · A breakthrough in understanding artemisinin resistance has been done by researchers Institut Pasteur in Cambodia and Paris who have developed the in vitro Ring stage Survival Assay (RSA) which can reproduce the phenotypic difference in response to artemisinins between patients who carry artemisinin- resistant and -sensitive parasites.
- · Samples from the Tracking Resistance to Artemisinin Collaboration (TRAC) study will be made available to the malaria research community. WWARN will manage the distribution of the samples from the TRAC study, a clinical trial assessing the spread of artemisinin resistance.