Gold mining areas in Suriname: Reservoirs of malaria resistance?

Infection and Drug Resistance

Volumn 7, Issue , 2014, Pages 111-116

  Adhin, Malti R ^a   Labadie Bracho, Mergiory ^b   Vreden, Stephen ^c  

^a ANTON DE KOM UNIVERSITY OF SURINAME   (Suriname)

^b Prof Dr Paul C Flu Institute for Biomedical Sciences

^c ACADEMIC HOSPITAL PARAMARIBO   (Suriname)

Author keywords

Gold mining; Mutation frequency; Plasmodium falciparum; Suriname

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTEMISININ; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; CHLOROQUINE; CYSTEINE; GOLD; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; MEFLOQUINE; PHENYLALANINE; PYRIMETHAMINE; SERINE; THREONINE; TYROSINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MINING; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PFATP6 GENE; PFCRT GENE; PFDHFR GENE; PFMDR1 GENE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SURINAME;

EID: 84899787689     PISSN: 11786973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/IDR.S60906     Document Type: Article

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