Lack of artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum in Uganda based on parasitological and molecular assays

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 5061-5064

  Cooper, Roland A ^a   Conrad, Melissa D ^b   Watson, Quentin D ^c   Huezo, Stephanie J ^a   Ninsiima, Harriet ^d   Tumwebaze, Patrick ^d   Nsobya, Samuel L ^d   Rosenthal, Philip J ^b  

^a DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INFECTIOUS DISEASES RESEARCH COLLABORATION   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; DIHYDROARTEMISININ; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANTIMALARIAL DRUG SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; IC50; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; UGANDA; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; DRUG RESISTANCE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARASITEMIA; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; UGANDA;

EID: 84939865009     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00921-15     Document Type: Article

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