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Diversity of the sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase orthologue of Plasmodium falciparum (PfATP6).
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 May 2008
Dahlström Sabina, Veiga Maria Isabel, Ferreira Pedro, Mårtensson Andreas, Kaneko Akira, Andersson Björn, Björkman Anders, Gil José Pedro
Abstract excerpt
The sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase orthologue of Plasmodium falciparum (PfATP6) has been suggested to be involved in the mechanism of action and resistance to artemisinins, the main constituent of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT). In previous studies only six single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been described in clinical samples and field isolates. Our aim was to sequence a large...
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