Assessment of pfmdr1 gene copy number by tandem competitive polymerase chain reaction

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 161-169

  Price, Ric ^a,b   Robinson, Grant ^a   Brockman, Alan ^b,d   Cowman, Alan ^c   Krishna, Sanjeev ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SHOKLO MALARIA RESEARCH UNIT   (Thailand)

^c WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

drug resistance; malaria; pfmdr1; Plasmodium falciparum; quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; MEFLOQUINE; ABC TRANSPORTER; MDR GENE PROTEIN, PLASMODIUM; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE FREQUENCY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; ANIMAL; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030615279     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(96)02822-8     Document Type: Article

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