No genetic bottleneck in Plasmodium falciparum wild-type Pfcrt alleles reemerging in Hainan Island, China, following high-level chloroquine resistance

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 345-347

  Chen, Nanhua ^a   Gao, Qi ^b   Wang, Shanqing ^c   Wang, Guangze ^c   Gatton, Michelle ^d   Cheng, Qin ^a,d  

^a AUSTRALIAN ARMY MALARIA INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b JIANGSU INSTITUTE OF PARASITIC DISEASES   (China)

^c Hainan Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^d QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHINA; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHINA; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG RESISTANCE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 37849001113     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00711-07     Document Type: Article

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