Prevalence of the K76T mutation in the putative Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter (pfcrt) gene and its relation to chloroquine resistance in Mozambique

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 183, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1413-1416

  Mayor, Alfredo G ^a,b   Gómez Olivé, Xavier ^a,b   Aponte, John J ^a,b   Casimiro, Sonia ^a,c   Mabunda, Samuel ^a,c   Dgedge, Martinho ^a,d   Barreto, Avertino ^a,c   Alonso, Pedro L ^a,b  

^a Mozambique Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats   (Mozambique)

^b INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^c Ministerio da Saude   (Mozambique)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SAÚDE   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CHLOROQUINE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MOZAMBIQUE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; CODON; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOZAMBIQUE; MUTATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 0035341841     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/319856     Document Type: Article

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