pfmdr1 mutations in imported African Plasmodium falciparum isolates

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 102, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1148-1150

  Dippmann, Anja K ^a   Bienzle, Ulrich ^a   Harms, Gundel ^a   Mockenhaupt, Frank P ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Africa; Amodiaquine; Artesunate; Drug resistance; Lumefantrine; Malaria; pfmdr1

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER; ARTESUNATE; BENFLUMETOL; MICROORGANISM PROTEIN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFRICA; ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CHOICE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AFRICA; ALLELES; AMODIAQUINE; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ETHANOLAMINES; FLUORENES; GENES, MDR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MUTATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ARTESUNATE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 53349107826     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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