Discordant patterns of genetic variation at two chloroquine resistance loci in worldwide populations of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2212-2222

  Mehlotra, Rajeev K ^a   Mattera, Gabriel ^a   Bockarie, Moses J ^b   Maguire, Jason D ^c   Baird, J Kevin ^c   Sharma, Yagya D ^d   Alifrangis, Michael ^e   Dorsey, Grant ^f   Rosenthal, Philip J ^f   Fryauff, David J ^g   Kazura, James W ^a   Stoneking, Mark ^h   Zimmerman, Peter A ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^c US Naval Medical Research Unit No 2 Jakarta   (Indonesia)

^d ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ; CHLOROQUINE;

AFRICA; ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASIA; CHROMOSOME 7; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; MALARIA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PFCRT GENE; PFMDR1 GENE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ASIA; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG RESISTANCE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SOUTH AMERICA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 44449145387     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00089-08     Document Type: Article

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