High prevalence of pfcrt K76T mutants among plasmodium falciparum isolates from Sabah, Malaysia

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1322-1326

  Norahmad, Nor Azrina ^a   Abdullah, Noor Rain ^a   Yaccob, Norhayati ^a   Jelip, Jenarun ^b   Dony, Jiloris F ^c   Ruslan, Khairul Faiz ^c   Sulaiman, Lokman Hakim ^d   Sidek, Hasidah Mohd ^e   Noedl, Harald ^f   Ismail, Zakiah ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Malaysia)

^b Sabah State Health Department   (Malaysia)

^c Tawau Health Department   (Malaysia)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Malaysia)

^e UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chloroquine resistant; Pfcrt; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHLOROQUINE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; PFCRT PROTEIN, PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALAYSIA; MUTATION; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ANTIMALARIALS; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALAYSIA; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MUTATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 84857678011     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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