Widespread occurrence of the Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter (Pfcrt) gene haplotype SVMNT in P. falciparum malaria in India

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 256-259

  Vathsala, P G ^a   Pramanik, A ^a   Dhanasekaran, S ^a   Usha Devi, C ^b   Pillai, C R ^b   Subbarao, S K ^b   Ghosh, S K ^b   Tiwari, S N ^b   Sathyanarayan, T S ^b   Deshpande, P R ^c   Mishra, G C ^c   Ranjit, M R ^d   Dash, A P ^e   Rangarajan, P N ^a   Padmanaban, G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

^c NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CELL SCIENCE   (India)

^d REGIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE ICMR   (India)

^e Institute of Life Science   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLOROQUINE; DNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INDIA; MALARIA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PFCRT GENE; PFMDR1 GENE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 12144288754     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2004.70.256     Document Type: Article

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