| [malaria vector control in cameroon: past, present, future. reflections]. | during the fifties, large scale malaria vector control projects based upon house spraying were implemented in southern and northern parts of cameroon in line of malaria eradication concept. in the south, the pilot zone of yaounde gathered about 150,000 inhabitants, in the forest area. first operations started in 1953 but the programme became actually operational in 1956. it was divided in two parts: the western part was treated with ddt, while the eastern one was treated with dieldrin. at the sa ... | 2001 | 16579079 |
| molecular epidemiology of malaria in cameroon. xxii. geographic mapping and distribution of plasmodium falciparum dihydrofolate reductase (dhfr) mutant alleles. | sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (sp) is still a useful drug to combat chloroquine-resistant plasmodium falciparum malaria in cameroon. because of several disadvantages of the in vivo test and in vitro drug sensitivity assays, molecular assays are an alternative laboratory tool to monitor the evolution of antifolate resistance, especially over the entire country that is characterized by several epidemiologic strata and malaria transmission patterns. in this study, 1,430 blood samples from either sympto ... | 2006 | 16968912 |