Apparent bias for P. falciparum parasites carrying the wild-type pfcrt allele in the placenta

Parasitology Research

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1065-1070

  Oster, Nadja ^a   Rohrbach, Petra ^a   Sanchez, Cecilia P ^a   Andrews, Katharine T ^a   Kammer, Judith ^a   Coulibaly, Boubacar ^b   Stieglbauer, Gabriele ^a   Becher, Heiko ^a   Lanzer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Centre de Recherche en Santé À Nouna   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; GLYCOPROTEIN P; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN PFCRT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; ANTIMALARIAL DRUG RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PLACENTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION GENETICS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BLOOD; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PLACENTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 77953292236     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-010-1756-7     Document Type: Article

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