Abstract Background The emergence and spread of multidrug resistance poses a significant risk to malaria control eradication goals in the world. There has been no indigenous cases reported China since 2017, is approaching national elimination. Therefore, anti-malarial drug surveillance tracking imported drug-resistant will be necessary post-elimination phase China. Methods Dried blood spots wer...

Malaria is caused by an intracellular protozoan parasite of the genus Plasmodium. The use of chemotherapy, the foremost tool available for the control of the disease, has been challenged in the last decades by the development and spread of drug resistance among malaria parasites. A clear understanding behind the mechanisms of parasite resistance is required for the improvement of treatment effi...