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In this randomized, controlled trial, 497 children with acute uncomplicated falciparum malaria were given either a combination of CQ and SP or six doses of co-artemether (91 received CQ/SP and 406 received co-artemether), and their blood was tested for infectivity to mosquitoes seven days after treatment.
Positive results on the rapid test, which can not be verified microscopically have been suggested to be due to circulating P. falciparum HRP-2 antigen following treatment [ 20 ] or from sequestered parasites [ 21 ] .
As the causative agent of malaria, Plasmodia sp. alone infects about 300 million people globally and results in an annual death toll of nearly 2 million [ 11 ] . Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) is the most virulent of all and causes fatal cerebral malaria.
Moreover, the present oligonucleotide representation could be further extended for investigation of several unusual P. falciparum genetic and transcriptional phenomena, including antisense mRNA transcription [ 48] and alternative splicing and/or transcriptional initiation [ 49, 50].
Post-transcriptional gene silencing using synthetic short interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules has been recently used to ablate specific mRNAs and thus, produce phenotypic mutations in specific genes [ 16 17 ] . We have adopted this technology to knockdown specific gene products in RNA viruses that are obligatory intracellular parasites [ 18 ] . In the present study, we have successfully used a similar strategy to generate phenotypic PP1-deficient P. falciparum parasites.
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