Prevalence of mutations associated with higher levels of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Car Nicobar Island and Assam, India

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3934-3938

  Ahmed, Anwar ^a   Lumb, Vanshika ^a   Das, Manoj K ^b   Dev, Vas ^b   Wajihullah, ^c   Sharma, Yagya D ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

^c ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; DIHYDROPTEROATE SYNTHASE; FANSIDAR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INDIA; MALARIA; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CODON; DIHYDROPTEROATE SYNTHASE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MUTATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 33750582946     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00732-06     Document Type: Article

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