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World Antimalarial Resistance Drug Network article series published in Malaria Journal

Malaria Journal has published a series of articles on the World Antimalarial Resistance Drug Network (WARN). WARN is being launched with the aim of providing a globally co-ordinated effort to tackle malaria, by facilitating monitoring and characterisation of drug resistance. 

The articles lay the case for creating WARN, which will consist of four linked open-access global databases containing clinical, in vitro, molecular and pharmacological data. The databases will include freely available tools to make addition of information straightforward, and to give researchers the opportunity to analyse and use information from the databases in a variety of ways. Information on individual patients will be collated in a standardised way, which should make it easier for researchers to compare directly or pool data from different sites across the world.

WARN's founders hope that the databases will help speed up the publication process for scientists. This, in turn, means that policymakers and malaria control managers will have access to timely information on the temporal and geographic trends of drug resistance, allowing them to take action as soon as resistant malaria parasites are detected.

Please click here to view all of the articles in the series.

Posted by Charlotte Hubbard at 13:05    Comments (0)