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Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Angola show the StctVMNT haplotype in the pfcrt gene.
Malaria journal - 18 Jun 2010
Gama Bianca E, Pereira-Carvalho Guilhermina A L, Lutucuta Kosi Florbela J I, Almeida de Oliveira Natália K, Fortes Filomeno, Rosenthal Philip J, Daniel-Ribeiro Cláudio T, de Fátima Ferreira-da-Cruz Maria
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BACKGROUND: Effective treatment remains a mainstay of malaria control, but it is unfortunately strongly compromised by drug resistance, particularly in Plasmodium falciparum, the most important human malaria parasite. Although P. falciparum chemoresistance is well recognized all over the world, limited data are available on the distribution and prevalence of pfcrt and pfmdr1 haplotypes that mediate resistance to...
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