Multiple drug resistance genes in malaria - From epistasis to epidemiology

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 874-877

  Duraisingh, Manoj T ^a   Refour, Philippe ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; CHLOROQUINE; FANSIDAR; MEFLOQUINE; QUININE;

DRUG SENSITIVITY; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; MALARIA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

CINCHONA PUBESCENS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 23744443564     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04748.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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