Hitchhiking and selective sweeps of Plasmodium falciparum sulfadoxine and pyrimethamine resistance alleles in a population from central Africa

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4089-4097

  McCollum, Andrea M ^a,b,c   Basco, Leonardo K ^d   Tahar, Rachida ^d   Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam ^b   Escalante, Ananias A ^a,e  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c ATLANTA RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d Organisation de Coordination pour la Lutte contre les Endemies en Afrique Centrale Cameroon   (Cameroon)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; DIHYDROPTEROATE SYNTHASE; FANSIDAR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CENTRAL AFRICA; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME 8; DHFR GENE; DHPS GENE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HAPLOTYPE; MARKER GENE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CAMEROON; DIHYDROPTEROATE SYNTHASE; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PYRIMETHAMINE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SULFADOXINE; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 55849113334     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00623-08     Document Type: Article

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