'Snakes and Ladders' of drug resistance evolution.

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Malaria is a major public health problem affecting 500 million people each year. Only few anti-malarial drugs are now available for fighting this deadly disease, and their effectiveness is alarmingly dwindling because of the drug resistant strains. Here we discuss recent findings on the evolutionary process behind the gain of a resistant gene. It was shown that, for a protein to become resistant to an inhibitor,...

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