Article
[Malaria, genetics and molecular biology: myths, hopes and realities].
Annales pharmaceutiques francaises - 1 Apr 2001
Ambroise-Thomas P
Abstract excerpt
In the last two decades, progress in molecular biology has revealed a considerable genetic diversity among several parasitic species and especially in Plasmodium falciparum. This variability is of course facilitated by the haploid state of all plasmodial stages present in the human organism. Demonstrating this has lead to great progress in understanding some of the great epidemiological, pathophysiological, or...
Topics
- AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
- Animals
- Antimalarials
- Genome, Protozoan
- Genotype
- Humans
- Malaria
- Malaria, Falciparum
- Plasmodium falciparum
