Association of pfcrt but not pfmdr1 alleles with chloroquine resistance in Iranian isolates of Plasmodium falciparum

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 633-640

  Zakeri, Sedigheh ^a   Afsharpad, Mandana ^a   Kazemzadeh, Tahmineh ^b   Mehdizadeh, Kambiz ^c   Shabani, Ashraf ^b   Djadid, Navid Dinparast ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^b ALZAHRA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c ZAHEDAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN PFCRT; PROTEIN PFMDR1;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FOLLOW UP; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; INFANT; IRAN; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 45349099547     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2008.78.633     Document Type: Article

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