Development and comparison of quantitative assays for the dihydropteroate synthetase codon 540 mutation associated with sulfadoxine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum

Parasitology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 203-210

  Shaio, M F ^a,b   Wang, P ^b   Lee, C S ^b   Sims, P F G ^b   Hyde, J E ^b  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnostic PCR; Dihydropteroate synthetase; Fansidar resistance; Malaria; Plavmodium falciparum; Sulfadoxine

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROPTEROATE SYNTHASE; FANSIDAR; PHOSPHORUS 32; PLASMID DNA; SULFADOXINE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CODON; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ASSAY; HUMAN; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CODON; DIHYDROPTEROATE SYNTHASE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFADOXINE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031933950     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182097002187     Document Type: Article

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