Genetic predisposition favors the acquisition of stable artemisinin resistance in malaria parasites

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 50-55

  Beez, Dorothee ^a   Sanchez, Cecilia P ^a   Stein, Wilfred D ^b   Lanzer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMISININ; ARTESUNATE; BENFLUMETOL; CHLOROQUINE; DIHYDROARTEMISININ; VERAPAMIL;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 13; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS RESISTANCE; DRUG RESPONSE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CROSS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; PFMDR1 GENE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; DRUG RESISTANCE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 78650640147     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00916-10     Document Type: Article

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