The principal chloroquine resistance protein of Plasmodium falciparum is a member of the drug/metabolite transporter superfamily

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-3

  Tran, Can V ^a   Saier Jr , Milton H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; HEMATIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE;

AFRICA; ASIAN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG BINDING; EXON; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; MALARIA; MORTALITY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTH AMERICA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 1642473952     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26818-0     Document Type: Note

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