Analysis of Plasmodium falciparum multidrug-resistance (pfmdr1) gene mutation by hairpin-dependent cleavage fragment length polymorphism

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 88, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 243-247

  Tahar, Rachida ^a,b   Basco, Leonardo K ^a,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Inst Francais Rech Sci pour le D   (France)

Author keywords

Drug resistance; Malaria; Mutation; Plasmodium falciparum; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0030788340     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00055-8     Document Type: Article

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