Plasmodium falciparum in Kenya: High prevalence of drug-resistance-associated polymorphisms in hospital admissions with severe malaria in an epidemic area

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 661-669

  Omar, S A ^a   Adagu, I S ^a   Gump, D W ^a   Ndaru, N P ^a   Warhurst, D C ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMODIAQUINE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 2; QUININE; TYROSINE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 8; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KENYA; MALARIA; MEROZOITE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POINT MUTATION; PREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KENYA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

CINCHONA PUBESCENS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0035198972     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034980120103234     Document Type: Article

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