Identification of variant ABC-transporter genes among Onchocerca volvulus collected from ivermectin-treated and untreated patients in Ghana, West Africa

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 371-384

  Ardelli, B F ^a   Prichard, R K ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID; IVERMECTIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GHANA; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; SAMPLE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE;

ADULT; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FILARICIDES; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GHANA; HUMANS; IVERMECTIN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS;

EID: 3142630022     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000349804225003415     Document Type: Article

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