Evidence of selective sweeps in genes conferring resistance to chloroquine and pyrimethamine in plasmodium falciparum isolates in India

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 997-1006

  Mixson Hayden, Tonya ^a,c   Jain, Vidhan ^d   McCollum, Andrea M ^a   Poe, Amanda ^a,c   Nagpal, Avinash C ^e   Dash, Aditya P ^d   Stiles, Jonathan K ^b   Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam ^a   Singh, Neeru ^d,f  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ATLANTA RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

^e NSCB MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^f Regional Medical Research Centre for Tribals   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PYRIMETHAMINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAIN MALARIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POINT MUTATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PYRIMETHAMINE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77149145165     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00846-09     Document Type: Article

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