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Emergence of an unusual sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance pattern and a novel K540N mutation in dihydropteroate synthetase in Plasmodium falciparum isolates obtained from Car Nicobar Island, India, after the 2004 Tsunami.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Apr 2009
Lumb Vanshika, Das Manoj K, Mittra Pooja, Ahmed Anwar, Kumar Manoj, Kaur Punit, Dash Aditya P, Singh Shiv S, Sharma Yagya D
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BACKGROUND: Enormous amounts of drugs were used to contain the outbreak of infectious diseases in areas of India affected by the tsunami in December 2004. The impact of this drug use on the Plasmodium falciparum population needs to be investigated. METHODS: The nucleotide sequence of the pfcrt, p...
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