pfmdr1 amplification and fixation of pfcrt chloroquine resistance alleles in Plasmodium falciparum in Venezuela

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1572-1579

  Griffing, Sean ^a,b   Syphard, Luke ^b,c   Sridaran, Sankar ^b,c,f   McCollum, Andrea M ^b,f   Mixson Hayden, Tonya ^b,f   Vinayak, Sumiti ^b,f   Villegas, Leopoldo ^d   Barnwell, John W ^b   Escalante, Ananias A ^e   Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d Asociación Civil Impacto Social   (Venezuela)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ATLANTA RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; MEFLOQUINE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DHFR GENE; DHPS GENE; EPIDEMIC; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PFCRT GENE; PFMDR1 GENE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENEZUELA;

ALLELES; ANTIMALARIALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROQUINE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; VENEZUELA;

EID: 77950146604     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01243-09     Document Type: Article

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