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Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance in the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium chabaudi.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Aug 2002
Hayton Karen, Ranford-Cartwright Lisa C, Walliker David
Abstract excerpt
We have studied resistance to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (S/P) in the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium chabaudi. A stable S/P-resistant mutant, AS(50S/P), was selected by drug treatment of a clone, AS(PYR), already resistant to pyrimethamine. The sequences of the P. chabaudi dhfr and dhps genes were obtained and found to be identical in AS(50S/P) and AS(PYR), showing that resistance to S/P in AS(50S/P) was not...
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