Temporal changes in prevalence of molecular markers mediating antimalarial drug resistance in a high malaria transmission setting in Uganda

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 54-61

  Mbogo, George W ^a   Nankoberanyi, Sheila ^a   Tukwasibwe, Stephen ^a   Baliraine, Frederick N ^b   Nsobya, Samuel L ^a   Conrad, Melissa D ^c   Arinaitwe, Emmanuel ^a   Kamya, Moses ^a   Tappero, Jordan ^d   Staedke, Sarah G ^e   Dorsey, Grant ^c   Greenhouse, Bryan ^c   Rosenthal, Philip J ^c  

^a INFECTIOUS DISEASES RESEARCH COLLABORATION   (Uganda)

^b Le Tourneau University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTESUNATE; CHLOROQUINE; DIHYDROARTEMISININ PLUS PIPERAQUINE; FOLIC ACID ANTAGONIST; MOLECULAR MARKER; PYRIMETHAMINE PLUS SULFADOXINE;

ALLELE; ANTIMALARIAL DRUG RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UGANDA; WILD TYPE;

ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ETHANOLAMINES; FEMALE; FLUORENES; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MUTATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; TIME FACTORS; UGANDA;

EID: 84903891206     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0647     Document Type: Article

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