New PfATP6 mutations found in Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Vietnam

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4570-4571

  Bertaux, Lionel ^a   Le, Hong Quang ^b   Sinou, Véronique ^a   Nguyen, Xuan Thanh ^c   Parzy, Daniel ^a  

^a SERVICE DE SANTÉ DES ARMÉES   (France)

^b Military Center of Preventive Medicine   (Viet Nam)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (CALCIUM); ARTEMISININ; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM CALCIUM ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE 6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DRUG TARGETING; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC STRAIN; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IC 50; LETTER; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; VIET NAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CALCIUM-TRANSPORTING ATPASES; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MUTATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; VIETNAM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349330325     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00684-09     Document Type: Letter

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