The interplay between drug resistance and fitness in malaria parasites

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1025-1038

  Rosenthal, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOQUINOLINE CHLOROQUINE; AMODIAQUINE; AMODIAQUINE PLUS ARTESUNATE; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTEMISININ; ATOVAQUONE; CHLOROQUINE; DIHYDROARTEMISININ PLUS PIPERAQUINE; FOLIC ACID ANTAGONIST; PIPERAQUINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIMALARIAL DRUG RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFICACY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PFCRT GENE; PFMDR1 GENE; PFMRP1 GENE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENZYMES; HUMANS; LACTONES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84884284782     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12349     Document Type: Article

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