Association between chloroquine resistance phenotypes and point mutations in pfcrt and pfmdr1 in Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Thailand

Acta Tropica

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-40

  Rungsihirunrat, Kanchana ^a   Chaijareonkul, Wanna ^b   Seugorn, Aree ^a   Na Bangchang, Kesara ^b   Thaithong, Sodsri ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Drug resistance; pfcrt; pfmdr1; Plasmodium falciparum; Quinoline antimalarials

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; MEFLOQUINE; QUININE;

ALLELE; DRUG RESISTANCE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM; PROTOZOAN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAMBODIA; GENE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; IN VITRO STUDY; LAOS; MALARIA; MALAYSIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PFCRT GENE; PFMDR1 GENE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POINT MUTATION; THAILAND;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG RESISTANCE; LAOS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; THAILAND;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 56949096093     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2008.09.011     Document Type: Article

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