Genetic Reconnaissance of Malaria in the Greater Mekong Subregion
GenRe-Mekong is a genetic surveillance project, aiming to provide National Malaria Control Programmes (NMCPs) in the Greater Mekong Subregion and other public health stakeholders with timely and actionable knowledge to support their decision-making in activities relevant to malaria elimination efforts.
About this Site
GenRe-Mekong project supports control programmes and malaria research community through the sharing of data, tools and knowledge.
This site contains resources for all aspects of the GenRe-Mekong project, including open access genotyping data, technical resources for the grcMalaria R package, and guides to the Genetic Report Cards.
Data
We routinely release genotype data, referred to as Genetic Report Card (GRC), to our partner studies, and periodically release public access datasets.
Tools
We developed a tool that turns rich information on the GRC datasheet into many types of genetic epidemiological maps with a few simple lines of code.
Knowledge
We share knowledge and provide trainings to expand in-country expertise, developing local capacity to evaluate drug resistance data and other genetic epidemiological outputs.
Latest
This paper give updates to the changes in antimalarial drug resistance epidemiology in the GMS, based on an analysis of 5982Β PfΒ dried blood spot samples collected by GenRe-Mekong from symptomatic patients in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam between 2017 and 2022, a period of time during which several NMCPs changed their malaria frontline treatment policies.
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Explore latest published GRC data on grcMapper
grcMapper is an interactive web-app for exploration of the published malaria surveillance GRC data.
Updated version contains published data from 25,973 samples from 7 regions (GMS, South Asia, Oceania, South America, Central Africa, East Africa, and West Africa), between 1984 - 2022.
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What we do
GenRe-Mekong is a genetic surveillance project conceived to provide public health experts in the Greater Mekong Subregion and neighboring countries with timely and actionable knowledge, to support their decision-making in malaria elimination efforts. In partnership with National Malaria Control Programmes (NMCPs) and regional research studies, GenRe-Mekong collects and analyzes small dried blood spots samples from patients with symptomatic malaria, and uses high-throughput technologies to extract large amounts of parasite genetic information from each sample. The results are captured in Genetic Report Cards, which consist of datasets and reports regularly delivered to NMCPs to keep them abreast of rapid epidemiological changes in the parasite population.
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π GenRe-Mekong is funded by
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
β Featured Publications
Varanya Wasakul et al
2025
Christopher G Jacob et al
2021
Varanya Wasakul et al
2022
Olivo Miotto
2023
Olivo Miotto et al
2024
MalariaGEN
2023
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