Hindawi Publishing Corporation Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases Volume 2014, Article ID 969531, 17 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/969531 Review Article Ecotope-Based Entomological Surveillance and Molecular Xenomonitoring of Multidrug Resistant Malaria Parasites in Anopheles Vectors Prapa Sorosjinda-Nunthawarasilp1 and Adisak Bhumiratana2 1 Department of Fundamentals of Public Health, Faculty of Public Health, Burapha University, Chonburi 20131, Thailand 2 Department of Parasitology and Entomology, Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University, 420/1 Rajvithi Road, Rajthewee, Bangkok 10400, Thailand Correspondence should be addressed to Adisak Bhumiratana;
[email protected] Received 19 June 2014; Accepted 24 August 2014; Published 1 October 2014 AcademicEditor:JoseG.Estrada-Franco Copyright © 2014 P. Sorosjinda-Nunthawarasilp and A. Bhumiratana. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The emergence and spread of multidrug resistant (MDR) malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum or Plasmodium vivax have become increasingly important in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). MDR malaria is the heritable and hypermutable property of human malarial parasite populations that can decrease in vitro and in vivo susceptibility to proven antimalarial drugs as they exhibit dose-dependent drug resistance and delayed parasite clearance time in treated