Decline in sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine-resistant alleles after change in drug policy in the Amazon region of Peru

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 739-741

  Zhou, Zhiyong ^a,b   Griffing, Sean M ^a,c   De Oliveira, Alexandre Macedo ^a   McCollum, Andrea M ^a,b,c   Quezada, Wilmer Marquino ^d   Arrospide, Nancy ^d   Escalante, Ananias A ^e   Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam ^a,f  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b ATLANTA RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; FANSIDAR;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DHFR GENE; DHPS GENE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALARIA; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; PERU; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; DIHYDROPTEROATE SYNTHASE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MUTATION; PERU; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 38649109842     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00975-07     Document Type: Article

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